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Languages of the Balkans

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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. 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-studied sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.

Indo-European languages

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Germanic

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Albanian

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Hellenic languages

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Indo-Aryan languages

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Slavic languages

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Eastern South Slavic

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Transitional dialects

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East Slavic

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Western South Slavic

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Regiolects

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Romance languages

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Turkic languages

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Extinct languages

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These are the extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans:

See also

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