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 languages edit
Germanic edit
- Yiddish (Slovenia, Romania)
- Austrian German (Slovenia)
Albanian edit
- Arvanitika
- Northwestern Arvanitika
- Southcentral Arvanitika
- Thracean Arvanitika
- Gheg
- Standard Albanian
- Arbëresh
- Tosk
- Istrian
Hellenic languages edit
Indo-Aryan languages edit
Slavic languages edit
Eastern South Slavic edit
Transitional dialects edit
- Transitional Bulgarian dialects
- Transitional Serbo-Croatian dialects (Našinski/Torlakian)
East Slavic edit
Western South Slavic edit
- Slovene
- Serbo-Croatian with standardized varieties based on the Shtokavian dialect:
Regiolects edit
Romance languages edit
- Aromanian
- Istriot (in western Istria)
- Istro-Romanian (In eastern Istria)
- Italian (on the Adriatic coast)
- Ladino (in Greece, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania)
- Megleno-Romanian (Meglenenitic)
- Romanian
Turkic languages edit
Extinct languages edit
These are the extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans: