The Gagauz language is wide spread on the territory of Moldova (Gagauzia), in the Odessa region of Ukraine, as well as a small areas on the territory of the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The number of people speaking more than 160 thousand people. So, in Moldova according to the census of 2004 Gagauz was 4.4 % of the population is 147,5 thousand of them actually Gagauzia 127.8 thousand, people. Gagauz Moldova, as well as Russians in Moldova, the majority of formal mother tongue pointed the language of their nationality - Gagauz 92,3 %and 5,8 % - Russian, 1.9 % in other languages (Moldovan and Ukrainian). In the Odessa region of Gagauz population of 27.6 thousand people (2001 census) or 1.1 % of the region's population. The safety of the Gagauz language here, respectively, below. Most of the Gagauz Ukraine is Russian and Ukrainian languages. Georgians also live compactly in the South of the Balkan Peninsula in Greece and Bulgaria. The young generation in the Gagauzian families Bulgaria often identify themselves Bulgarians[4].On the Gagauz language is spoken also gagali (Gagauz-Muslims). Their number on the Balkan Peninsula inaccurate and varies to 331 000 people [5].
The Gagauz language belongs to the Turkic sub-group of the Turkic languages, nearest kindred language is Turkish. Put forward the hypothesis about the origin of the Gagauz language from Pechenigy, Oguz, Cuman. Indirect evidence usually finds in history, Ethnography and folklore of the Gagauz.
In the XI century the nomadic the Oghuz Turks were driven Polovtsy (or Kumans, or Kipchaks) in the Danube region. Next, the data about them is lost. However, it is known that the Gagauz moved on the territory of the Russian Empire in the end of XVIII - beginning of XIX century. The language has a number of Balkan hell, in particular, the presence of a vowel average number of close Bulgarian "Kommersant" Moldovan "is hence reset".