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Pomak language ?
Dobrev:
--- Quote from: Slaven on September 28, 2010, 18:06 ---Actually, a study of Pomak shows it has more pure Slavic features than standard Bulgarian. That means Bulgarian was somehow corrupted (Simplified? Modernised? Turkified? Russified?) compared with Pomak language. And a casual review of postings about Pomak language on the net confirms that Pomaks are aware of this.
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Take a look at the Old Bulgarian Language and you will see why the spoken dialects are different than the modern Bulgarian. What some want to call now pomak language is actually the Old Bulgarian. And "casual reviews online" will not prove anything, cause nothing on the Balkans is casual.
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Тоска:
--- Quote from: Dobrev on September 30, 2010, 13:17 ---Same language. Guess what it is?
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Austrians are talking the same language as germans but if you ask them about their identy you will possibly get a quick response. They're all austrians ;) As i said there exist gap between pomak language (granted that christians who live in rhodopes) and official bulgarian.
Dobrev:
--- Quote from: Toska on September 30, 2010, 19:17 ---Austrians are talking the same language as germans but if you ask them about their identy you will possibly get a quick response. They're all austrians ;) As i said there exist gap between pomak language (granted that christians who live in rhodopes) and official bulgarian.
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Self identification has nothing to do with the linguistic characteristics of a certain speech.
And yes, there is a difference between the official Bulgarian and the Rhodope languages, cause they are dialects.
No matter what part of Bulgaria you take - North, East, South, West - there is a difference between the spoken vernaculars and the official language. That is the relation "dialects:official".
Sv:
The fact that some Pomaks consider themselves speaking Pomak and not Bulgarian doesn't change their ethnicity.
Тоска:
i guess it depends on political decisions upon countries. If my memory serves me correctly czech people had almost forgetten how to speak their own language but during the foundation of czech republic, czech language was rebuilded by the the help of czech sheepmans who were still speaking fluent czech ;)
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