Date Compiled: 2026-04-12

Balkan Linguistic Union¶

Type: Linguistic concept (Sprachbund)

The Balkan Linguistic Union: Romanian, Greek, Albanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Turkish share structural features due to prolonged contact. Greek exerted strong influence on Romanian during the Phanariot period.

See also: byzantine-greek-vocabulary, turkisms, phanariot-period

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