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Name: Balkan Gagauz Turkish

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Balkan Turkic; Gagauz; Türkische Sprache in Bulgarien

Spoken in: Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria

Number of speakers: 327,000 in Turkey (Johnstone 1993). 7,000 Surguch (1965) and 320,000 Yuruk. Population total all countries: 331,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 180400 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 331000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: bgx

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Turkic

Parent Subgroup: West Oghuz; Turkish (trks)

Child Dialects: Karamanli (bgx-kar) Kyzylbash; Kyzylbaś (bgx-kyz) Yuruk; Yoruk; Konyar (bgx-yur) Gajol (bgx-gaj) Gerlovo Turks (bgx-ger) Tozluk Turks (bgx-toz) Surguch (bgx-sur)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Severely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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