Balkan Turkish
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Balkan Turkish is a regional variety of the Turkish language spoken by Turkish communities across several Balkan countries, influenced by local languages and cultures.
Aliases (5)
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turkic lect
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dialect continuum → regional variety of Turkish → |
| basedOn |
Istanbul Turkish
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| endangeredStatus |
subject to language shift toward majority languages
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| hasFeature |
lexical differences from standard Turkish
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loanwords from surrounding Balkan languages → phonological influence from local majority languages → some grammatical calques from Balkan languages → |
| hasVariant |
Bulgarian Turkish
→
Dobrujan Turkish → Kosovar Turkish → Macedonian Turkish → Western Thrace Turkish → |
| historicalOrigin |
Ottoman Turkish presence in the Balkans
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| influencedBy |
Albanian language
→
Balkan Sprachbund → Bulgarian language → Greek language → Macedonian language → Romanian language → Serbo-Croatian language → |
| languageFamily |
Turkic languages
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| languageShiftTo |
Albanian
→
Bulgarian → Greek → Macedonian → Romanian → Serbian → |
| mutualIntelligibility |
largely mutually intelligible with standard Turkish
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| region |
Southeastern Europe
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| register |
primarily spoken variety
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| spokenBy |
Turkish minorities in the Balkans
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| spokenIn |
Albania
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Balkans → Bosnia and Herzegovina → Bulgaria → Greece → Kosovo → North Macedonia → Romania → Serbia → |
| standardForm |
lacks a single codified standard distinct from standard Turkish
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| subclassOf |
Oghuz Turkic languages
→
Turkish language → |
| typologicalArea |
Balkan linguistic area
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| usedBy |
Muslim communities of Turkish origin in the Balkans
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| usedIn |
family and community domains in Balkan Turkish communities
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| writingSystem |
Cyrillic script
→
Latin script → |
Referenced by (6)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Balkan Turkish
("Bulgarian Turkish")
→
Balkan Turkish ("Western Thrace Turkish") → Balkan Turkish ("Macedonian Turkish") → Balkan Turkish ("Kosovar Turkish") → Balkan Turkish ("Dobrujan Turkish") → |
hasVariant |
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Turkish language
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hasDialect |