Languages of the Balkans
This is a list of languages spoken in regions ruled by 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 sprachbund, a group of languages that have developed some striking structural similarities over time.
Indo-European languages
Germanic
Albanian
- Arvanitika
- *Northwestern Arvanitika
- *Southcentral Arvanitika
- *Thracean Arvanitika
- Gheg
- Standard Albanian
- Arbëresh
- Tosk
- Istrian
Hellenic languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Slavic languages
Eastern South Slavic
Transitional dialects
- Transitional Bulgarian dialects
- Transitional Serbo-Croatian dialects
East Slavic
Western South Slavic
- Slovene
- Serbo-Croatian with standardized varieties based on the Shtokavian dialect:
- * Bosnian
- * Croatian
- * Montenegrin
- * Serbian