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This is a list of languages spoken in the Balkans. With the exception of Turkish and Circassian, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ...
Indo-European languages
Romance languages Aromanian (also known as Macedo-romanian, Vlach, in Aromanian: Armăneashce or Vlăheshte) is a language in the eastern group of the Romance languages, spoken in the Balkans. ...
Moglenitic (or Meglenitic) is a Romance language, similar to Aromanian, spoken in the Moglená region, located across the Pella and Kilkis prefectures of Macedonia, Greece. ...
Ladino is a Romance language, derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew. ...
Slavic languages The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Central-South Slavic diasystem, formerly (and still frequently) called Serbo-Croatian. ...
The Macedonian¤ language (МакедонÑки, Makedonski) is a language in the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. ...
Indo-Aryan languages Romany (or Romani) is the language of the Roma and Sinti, travelling peoples often referred to in English as gypsies. They came originally from northern India and parts of Pakistan, and their language belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language group. ...
Turkish languages The Crimean Tatar language or Crimean-Turkish (in its own script: Qırımtatar tili, Qırım Tatar dili resp. ...
The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça) is an Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. ...
The Gagauz language is a Turkic language, used by Gagauz people, official language of Gagauzia. ...
Ibero-Caucasian languages The Kabardian language is a Russia, Jordan and Turkey. ...
Extinct languages These are extinct languages that were once spoken in the Balkans An extinct language is a language which is no longer natively spoken: it is estimated that one natural human language dies every two weeks. ...
The Dacian language was an Indo-European language spoken by the ancient people of Dacia. ...
Dalmatian is an extinct Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro. ...
The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ...
The Illyrian languages are a group of Indo-European languages that were spoken in the western part of the Balkans in pre-Roman times. ...
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The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, a people who probably migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor in the Bronze Age. ...
The Thracian language was the Indo-European language spoken in ancient times by the Thracians. ...
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