Balkan Gagauz Turkish
Balkan Gagauz | |
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Rumelian Turkish | |
Native to | Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo |
Native speakers | 460,000 (2019)[1] |
Turkic
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Latin script,[citation needed] Cyrillic alphabet[citation needed] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bgx |
Glottolog | balk1254 |
Balkan Gagauz Turkish, or Rumelian Turkish (Turkish: Rumeli Türkçesi), is a Turkic language spoken in European Turkey, in Dulovo and the Deliorman area in Bulgaria, the Prizren area in Kosovo and the Kumanovo and Bitola areas of North Macedonia.[2] Dialects include Gajal, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash , Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk (Konyar, Yoruk), Prizren Turk, and Macedonian Gagauz.
Although it is mutually intelligible with both Gagauz[2] and Turkish to a considerable degree, it is usually classified as a separate language,[dubious ][citation needed] due to foreign influences from neighboring languages spoken in the Balkans. The language is believed to have originated after the remaining Bulgar, Cuman, and Pecheneg tribes around the Balkans[citation needed] were influenced by Bulgarian, Byzantine and Ottoman rule.
Balkan Gagauz Turkish was recently given international prominence through the Oscar-nominated 2019 film Honeyland, in which the protagonist is an ethnic Macedonian Turk and mostly speaks in the local dialect throughout the film.
Population
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]
References
- ^ a b Balkan Gagauz at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- ^ a b Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish
- ^ "Macédoine (République de)". www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
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