| Balkan Gagauz | |
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| Rumelian Turkish | |
| Native to | Turkey,Greece,Bulgaria,North Macedonia,Serbia,Kosovo |
| Region | Balkan Peninsula |
Native speakers | 460,000 (2019)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bgx |
| Glottolog | balk1254 |
| ELP | Balkan Gagauz Turkish |
Balkan Gagauz,Balkan Turkish orRumelian Turkish (Turkish:Rumeli Türkçesi), is aTurkic language spoken inEuropean Turkey, inDulovo and theDeliorman area inBulgaria, thePrizren area inKosovo, and theKumanovo andBitola areas ofNorth Macedonia.[2] Dialects includeGajal,Gerlovo Turk,Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk,Yuruk (Konyar, Yoruk), Prizren Turk, and Macedonian Gagauz.[citation needed]
Although it is mutually intelligible with bothGagauz[2] andTurkish to a considerable degree,[citation needed] it is usually classified as a separate language,[citation needed] due to foreign influences from neighboring languages spoken in theBalkans.
Balkan Gagauz Turkish was given international prominence through the Oscar-nominated 2019 filmHoneyland, in which the protagonist is an ethnicMacedonian Turk and mostly speaks in the local dialect throughout the film.
There were around 460,000 speakers of Balkan Gagauz Turkish in Turkey in 2019[1] and an estimated 4,000 in North Macedonia in 2018.[3]
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