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ISO 639-3 · bgxbgx
Turkic family
Balkan Gagauz Turkish
Balkan Gagauz Turkish is a language of the Western Oghuz branch (Turkic), spoken in Turkey, North Macedonia and Bulgaria. Wikidata counts about 464,000 speakers (2021). Wikidata describes it as “Turkic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
bgx- Glottocode
balk1254- Family
- Turkic
- EGIDS
- 7 Shifting
- Wikipedia
- 28 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
2scripts
4levels in the tree
7EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Balkan Gagauz Turkish |
|---|---|
| Also called | Balkan Turkish, Rumelian Turkish, Balkan Gagauz Turkish |
| All speakers | 464,000 (2021) |
| Written in | Latin script, Cyrillic |
Vitality
EGIDS 7 Shifting7
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Turkic to Balkan Gagauz Turkish
The branches above Balkan Gagauz Turkish, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
41Turkicfamily38Common Turkic languagesbranch10Oghuzbranch4Western OghuzbranchbgxBalkan Gagauz Turkishlanguage
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Turkey
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafeapcLevantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 44 mazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeapcNorth Levantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 24.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkurKurdishIndo-European · 21 mSafeazbSouth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkmrKurmanjiIndo-European · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationaluigUyghurEastern Karluk · 10.4 m2 · ProvincialbulBulgarianIndo-European · 9 m1 · National