Balkan Gagauz Turkish

Balkan Gagauz, or Rumelian Turkish, is a Turkic language spoken in European Turkey, in Dulovo and the Deliorman area in Bulgaria and in the Kumanovo and Bitola areas of North Macedonia.[3] Dialects include Gajal, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk (Konyar, Yoruk), Prizren and Macedonian Gagauz. Although it is mutually intelligible with both Gagauz[3] and Turkish to a considerable degree, it is usually classified as a separate language due to foreign influences from neighboring languages spoken in the Balkans.

Balkan Gagauz
Native toTurkey, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo
Native speakers
(331,000 cited 1993)[1]
(adults only)
Latin script, Cyrillic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3bgx
Glottologbalk1254
ELPBalkan Gagauz Turkish[2]

Dialects

Seven varieties have been accorded ISO 639-3 language codes: Danubian, Gajol, Gerlovo Turks, Kyzylbash, Razgrad, Surguch, Tozluk Turks.[4]

Population
Subdivision
SurguchYoruk
7,000320,000

Population total all countries: 331,000 without children (Johnstone 1993),[3] 418,000 (cited 2014).[5]

References
  1. Balkan Gagauz at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Balkan Gagauz Turkish.
  3. Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish
  5. "Turquie: situation générale". Axl.cefan.ulaval.ca. Retrieved 22 August 2020.


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