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За така наречения „помашки език" в Гърция
On the So-Called "Pomak" Language in Greece

Author(s): Ivan Kochev
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Applied Linguistics, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Македонски научен институт
Keywords: Macedonia; Bulgaria; History; Greece; Pomak Language;

Summary/Abstract: The publishing in Greece of "A Grammar of the Pomak Language", as well as of "A Greek-Pomak" and "Pomak-Greek"dictionaries in 1995-96 is a political act which has nothing to do with science in spite of the linguistic form it is vested with. The part of Bulgarian Mohammedans who were left in Greece after 1913, 1919 and 1944 is declared an independent"ethnos". That fact, along with the conjuring up of a new literary"language" different from literary Bulgarian is aimed attearing off that ethnically Bulgarian population from its relatives in the Republic of Bulgaria and then assimilating it.

  • Issue Year: 1996
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 43-60
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian