Balkan languages
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This is a list of languages spoken in the Balkans. With the exception of Turkish and Circassian, all of them belong to the Indo-European family.
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Indo-European languages
Romance languages
- Romanian
- Aromanian
- Meglenitic
- Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
- Ladino (in Greece and Turkey)
Slavic languages
sometimes
Indo-Aryan languages
Turkish languages
- Crimean Tatar, Tatar
- Turkish (Osmanli)
- Gagauz
Ibero-Caucasian languages
Extinct languages
These are extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans
- Ancient Greek dialects
- Dacian
- Dalmatian (an extinct Romance language)
- Illyrian
- Latin
- Mycenaean
- Old Church Slavonic
- Paionian
- Phrygian
- Thracian