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

Contents

1 Indo-European languages 1.1 Romance languages 1.2 Slavic languages 1.3 Indo-Aryan languages 2 Turkish languages 3 Extinct languages 4 See also

Indo-European languages

• Albanian
• Armenian
• Greek

Romance languages

• Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
• Romanian
  • Macedo-Romanian
  • Megleno-Romanian
• Ladino (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
• Paleo-Balkan languages