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Balkan Gagauz Turkish
Spoken in	Turkey,; Greece,; Macedonia,
Total speakers	331,000
Language family	Altaic Turkic Oghuz Balkan Gagauz Turkish; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	bgx
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Balkan Gagauz Turkish (also known as Balkan Turkic) is a Turkic language spoken in European Turkey, Greece, and in the Kumanovo and Bitola areas of the Republic of Macedonia. (It is not spoken by the Turks.). Dialects include Gajol, Gerlovo Turk, Karamanli, Kyzylbash, Surguch, Tozluk Turk, Yuruk, and Macedonian Gagauz. This is a different language from Gagauz ^[2] and Turkish.

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^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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Ethnologue entry for Balkan Gagauz Turkish

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[0] The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.

[1] Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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