This is a list of languages spoken in the Balkan countries. With the exception of several Turkic languages and Hungarian, 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 Balkan sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.
Indo-European languages
Germanic Yiddish (Slovenia, Romania) Austrian German (Slovenia)
Albanian Albanian Gheg Istrian Tosk Arbëresh Arvanitika Northwestern Arvanitika Southcentral Arvanitika Thracian Arvanitika
Hellenic languages Greek Cappadocian Greek Pontic Greek Cretan Greek Tsakonian Greek
Indo-Aryan languages Romani
Slavic languages Eastern South Slavic Bulgarian Macedonian
Transitional dialects Transitional Bulgarian dialects Transitional Serbo-Croatian dialects (Gorani/Torlakian)
East Slavic Pannonian Rusyn
Western South Slavic Slovene Serbo-Croatian with standardized varieties based on the Shtokavian dialect: Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian
Regiolects Chakavian Kajkavian
Romance languages 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 Moldovan
Turkic languages Crimean Tatar Gagauz Tatar Turkish Ottoman Turkish
Ugric languages Hungarian
Extinct languages These are the extinct languages that were spoken in the Balkans in classical antiquity:
Illyrian (perhaps related with Albanian language) Thracian Dacian Phrygian (perhaps related with Hellenic languages) Paeonian Dalmatian Eteocretan Eteocypriot Lemnian Liburnian
See also Southeast Europe Paleo-Balkan languages Languages of Europe
References
ast:Llinguas de los Balcanes pl:Języki bałkańskie