This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled by Balkan countries. With the exception of several Turkic languages, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. A subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studied sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.
Indo-European languagesEdit
AlbanianEdit
- Arvanitika
- Northwestern Arvanitika
- Southcentral Arvanitika
- Thracean Arvanitika
- Gheg
- Standard Albanian
- Arbëresh
- Tosk
- Istrian
Hellenic languagesEdit
Indo-Aryan languagesEdit
Slavic languagesEdit
Eastern South SlavicEdit
Transitional dialectsEdit
- Transitional Bulgarian dialects
- Transitional Serbo-Croatian dialects (Našinski/Torlakian)
Western South SlavicEdit
- Slovene
- Serbo-Croatian with standardized varieties based on the Shtokavian dialect:
RegiolectsEdit
Romance languagesEdit
- Aromanian
- Istriot (in western Istria)
- Istro-Romanian (In eastern Istria)
- Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
- Ladino (in Greece, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria)
- Megleno-Romanian (Meglenenitic)
- Romanian
Turkic languagesEdit
Extinct languagesEdit
These are the extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans: