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Pomak language ?
bricktop:
Man, the more I read the topic, the more I believe that how you call your language is a matter of choice. We should leave the language and dialect matters to the linguists and focus on what brings us together as people.
I am a Bulgarian city "boy" with roots from Vardar Macedonia. I was a child when we went for a brief holiday to a family friend's country house(разбирай - бунгалце) in Сърница. A village populated exclusively by Pomaks. The owner had no roots in the area, she was actually a Bulgarian jew from German descent - Tanti(aunty from German) Ljuba. During our stay there, misteriously, every morning there were a jug of fresh milk and a bowl of freshly made yougurt(квасено млеко, как му викаше баба ми, македонката:) left at the door step of the "house"(shack actually). These were not gifts from God, they were gifts from the local people. Mind you, we were complete strangers, people that no one knew, saw, or ever had heard before....and still.
Maaan, I still crave the taste of that milk and yougurt:)
A little off-topic, but emotional:)
Cheers everyone!
Adrenalin:
They talk in the different regions differently, as well all think that pomak language is talked truly in their own district :)
Беглик:
Bricktop, maaan, when this took place? The shack was on the Sarnica side of the lake or on the other side where Romantica and Robotica are?
Националист:
Bogutevolu, can you tell me something about your name, I know a person with name Bogutev, is this the root of you name?
erol.elis:
Actualy every body write something about the pomaks, but never ask what thing the most of them. I think that no small part of them are proud to be called POMAK, but most of them try to hide the own identy. We must try to help all to be proud that are POMAK. Religion are important and this is one of the pillars of the identy.
My own opinion is that the Ottoman imperial is the first democratic system of the world. Every body are citizen and no have difference between them, only the religion is one of the differnces, but never have problems.
Another important point is that never have any problems about the languages (tongues) and folklore & ethnic differences.
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