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Greek
Indo-European language
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Turkish
Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people
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Azerbaijani
Oghuz Turkic language
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Bulgarian
South Slavic language
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Armenian
Indo-European language
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Albanian
Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro
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Georgian
Kartvelian language
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Kurdish
language of Kurds
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Tatar
Turkic language spoken by Tatars
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Bosnian
South Slavic language; a standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language
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Kyrgyz
Kipchak Turkic language of Central Asia
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Zazaki
Indo-European language spoken by Zaza people
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Crimean Tatar
Turkic language spoken in Crimea
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Romani
language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
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Adyghe
one of the official languages of the Republic of Adygea in Russia
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Syriac
dialect of Middle Aramaic
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Lezgian
Northeast Caucasian language that belongs to the Lezgic languages
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Judaeo-Spanish
Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo, Sephardi or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish.
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Abaza
language of the Caucasus mountains in the Russian Karachay–Cherkess Republic by the Abazins
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Kabardian
Northwest Caucasian language
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Laz
South Caucasian language in the Kartvelian family, close to Mingrelian, spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea
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Kurmanji
Kurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.
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Pontic Greek
Greek dialect
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Ubykh
extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people
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Western Armenian
one of the two languages of the Armenian language branch
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Neo-Aramaic dialect
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Megleno-Romanian
Eastern Romance language of the Balkans
Laki
Iranian language
Domari
language
Turoyo
language from the Central Neo-Aramaic language family
Balkan Gagauz
Turkic language
Yevanic
Yevanic, also known as Judaeo-Greek, Romaniyot, Romaniote, and Yevanitika, is a Greek dialect formerly used by the Romaniotes and by the Constantinopolitan Karaites (in whose case the language is called Karaitika or Karaeo-Greek). The Romaniotes are a group of Greek Jews whose presence in the Levant is documented since the Byzantine period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Jewish Koine spoken primarily by Hellenistic Jews throughout the region, and includes Hebrew and Aramaic elements. It was mutually intelligible with the Greek dialects of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used th
Cappadocian Greek
language
languages of Turkey
languages of a geographic region
Neo-Aramaic languages
modern varieties of the Aramaic language
Balkan Romani
Romani language
Turkish bird language
whistled language in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Region – inscribed in the List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2017
Zaza–Gorani languages
North-Western Iranian language family branch spoken mainly by Kurds
Lishán Didán
language
Hértevin
modern Eastern Aramaic or Syriac language
Homshetsi
Indo-European language
Mlahsô
language
Pomak
Slavonic language that is spoken in Thrace
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Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
pre-WWI Neo-Aramaic dialects
Anatolian Arabic
Arabic varieties of Eastern Turkey
Hakuchi Adyghe
Shapsug sub-dialect
Cilician Arabic
dialect of Arabic spoken in Turkey
Shapsug Adyghe
dialect of Adyghe
Istanbul Greek dialect
Endangered ancient dialect