• Pomak language (Greek: πομακική γλώσσα, pomakiki glosa or πομακικά, pomakika; Bulgarian: помашки език, pomaški ezik; Turkish: Pomakça) is a term used in...
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    recognizes their language as a Bulgarian dialect whereas in Greece and Turkey they self-declare their language as the Pomak language. The community in...
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    assimilation, which led to a language death. Some of the Rup dialects of the Bulgarian language are spoken by the Pomaks in Western Thrace in Greece....
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  • The Pomaks in Turkey refers to an ethnic group, who are Sunni muslims, and speak their own dialect of Pomak language. They mostly live in Eastern Thrace...
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    Muslim minority of Greece (category Pomaks)
    mountainous areas of Xanthi where the Pomak element is dominant, the Greek government has set up Greek language secondary education schools in which religious...
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  • and has used the wealth of its dialects. Slavic dialects of Greece Pomak language Shopi See: Balkan Syntax and Semantics, John Benjamins Publishing, 2004...
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    Armenian-speaking population Georgian-speaking population Laz-speaking population Pomak-speaking population Bosnian-speaking population Albanian-speaking population...
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    The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They...
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    by Pomaks, and as a second language by many Bulgarian Turks who emigrated from Bulgaria, mostly during the "Big Excursion" of 1989. The language is also...
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    Thrace according to Ethnologue, where it is referred to as Pomak. Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language, was traditionally spoken by the Sephardic community in...
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    Bulgarian Muslims (category Pomaks)
    of recently also Българи-мюсюлмани, Bǎlgari-mjusjulmani, locally called Pomak, ahryan, poganets, marvak, or poturnak) are Bulgarians who follow the faith...
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  • Paulician dialect (category CS1 Serbo-Croatian-language sources (sh))
    and Language in the Lovech Region. University Press “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Sofia, 1996, p. 645). The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. Pomak language...
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  • Active Krajina (Bosnian: Pokret za Modernu i Aktivnu Krajinu; abbreviated POMAK) is a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina founded by Šuhret Fazlić...
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    language enclaves) Strandzha dialect Thracian dialect Hvoyna dialect Smolyan dialect / Central Rhodope dialect Pomak dialect (spoken by most Pomaks)...
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    republika), was a short-lived self-governing administrative structure of the Pomaks, living in the Tamrash region of the Rhodope Mountains. It existed from...
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  • Karahamza, Meriç (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
    village is a Potak . Although the pomak language is actively used, 3% of the young population knows this language very well by the elderly. Every year...
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  • female. The census questioned the language spoken at home. Source: Arabic Circassian Georgian Greek Kurdish Ladino Laz Pomak Turkish Erdem, Ufuk (2016). "The...
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  • Minorities in Greece (category CS1 Greek-language sources (el))
    the Pomaks. Most Pomaks are fluent in their Pomak dialects (spoken amongst themselves), Turkish (their language of education, and the main language of...
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  • secure its national borders and expel the Turkish population. Immigration of Pomaks was not allowed, as Bulgaria saw them as Muslim Bulgarians. The expulsion...
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  • in Greek language. The other part of the village lies in the Xanthi regional unit of Greece as Kotyli (Kozludzha). The villages have a Pomak (Bulgarian...
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    more assimilationist. In 1962, Pomaks were banned from attending Turkish-language schools, and in 1972, Turkish-language schools were banned altogether...
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    Bulgarian descent. People of Bulgarian ancestry include a large number from the Pomak and a very small number of Orthodox of ethnic Bulgarian origin. Bulgarian...
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  • connection with the languages of the neighboring countries. It seems most sensible, in fact, to refer to the language of the Pomaks as Bulgarian and to...
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    Č (category CS1 Croatian-language sources (hr))
    It is also used in Macedonian, Slovak, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pomak, and Berber alphabets. In Berber, Karelian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, Sorbian...
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    List of chicken breeds (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2023. "Pomak fighting chicken". Arca-Net.info. Breed Atlas. Archived from the original...
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    especially the more recent immigrants, while others might not speak the language at all, or speak Bulgarian mixed with English to a lesser or greater extent...
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  • Armenian-speaking population Georgian-speaking population Laz-speaking population Pomak-speaking population Bosnian-speaking population Albanian-speaking population...
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    Valya Balkanska (category Pomaks)
    in 1977. Born as Feyme Kestebekova (Bulgarian: Фейме Кестебекова) in a Pomak family in a hamlet near the village of Arda, Smolyan Province, Balkanska...
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    Ethnic groups in the Middle East (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Caucasus in Turkey) Muslims from the Balkans (mainly Albanians, Bosniaks, and Pomaks) Armenians in Cyprus Greek Cypriots Maronite Cypriots Turkish Cypriots Indo-European...
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  • Gjinovec (category CS1 Albanian-language sources (sq))
    residents and 118 male Muslim (Pomak) residents. The inhabitants of Gjinovec are speakers of a Eastern South Slavic language and the village has traditionally...
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