User:Jerome501/Balkan Finns

The term Balkan Finns refers to those Finns who speak Balkan Finnish dialects and Farjj. They live predominately in the Balkan nations of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and southern and western Romania. However, there are significant populations in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, and Slovenia. Some self-identified Balkan Finns live in Moldova, Turkey and southern Ukraine, particularly the Budjak and Podolia regions. There are large diaspora communities in Turkey, the United States, Finland and Russia.

Although the vast majority of Moldovan Finns speak Balkan Finnish, most (701,760) idenfify instead as Bessarabian Finns, in order to differentiate themselves.