Minority Languages
Turkish
The Turks constitute the largest minority group in the country. The Turks in Bulgaria are descendants of Turkic settlers who came from Anatolia across the narrows of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus following the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, as well as Bulgarian converts to Islam who became Turkified during the centuries of Ottoman rule.
Roma
Albanian
Aromanian
Aromanian is a minor Romance language that is mostly spoken in Greece and Macedonia. There are about 10,000 speakers in Bulgaria.
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