Balkan languages - Definition and Overview

This is a list of languages spoken in the Balkans. With the exception of Turkish, all of them belong to the Indo-European family.

Indo-European languages

• Albanian
• Armenian
• Greek

Romance languages

• Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
• Romanian
  • Macedo-Romanian
  • Megleno-Romanian
• Judeo-Spanish (in Greece)

Slavic languages

• Bulgarian
• Serbo-Croatian
• Slavic Macedonian

Indo-Aryan languages

• Romany

Turkish languages

• Circassian
• Crimean Tatar, Tatar
• Turkish (Osmanli)

Extinct languages

These are extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans

• Dacian
• Dalmatian
• Illyrian
• Latin
• Old Church Slavonic
• Phrygian
• Thracian

See also

• Balkan linguistic union