This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled byBalkan countries. With the exception of severalTurkic languages and Hungarian, all of them belong to theIndo-European family. Despite belonging to four different families of Indo-European; Slavic, Romance, Greek, and Albanian, a subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studiedsprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.
These are theextinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans:
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Authority control databases: National |
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