- Balkan Gagauz Turkish language
language
name=Balkan Gagauz Turkish
familycolor=Altaic
states=Turkey ,Greece ,Republic of Macedonia
speakers=331,000
fam1=Altaic [The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. SeeAltaic languages .]
fam2=Turkic
fam3=Oghuz
iso3=bgxBalkan Gagauz Turkish (also known as Balkan Turkic) is a Turkic language spoken in European
Turkey ,Greece , and in the Kumanovo and Bitola areas ofMacedonia . (It is not spoken by the Turks.). Dialects include Gajol, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk, and Macedonian Gagauz. This is a different language from Gagauz [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.] and Turkish.Notes
References
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bgx Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish]
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