Pomak language
Pomak language is a term used in Greece and Turkey to refer to some of the Rup dialects of the Bulgarian language spoken by the Pomaks in Western Thrace in Greece and Eastern Thrace in Turkey. These dialects are native also in Bulgaria, and are classified as part of the Smolyan subdialect. Not all Pomaks speak this dialect as their mother language.
History
Some grammatical forms of the Rup dialects, published by the Danish linguist Pedersen in 1907, have striking resemblance to the grammatical forms of the Armenian language. As well, the Rup dialects have slightly different forms of demonstrative suffixes from the Bulgarian Tran dialect and the modern standard Macedonian language.There are publications concerning the vocabulary of the Rup dialects and anthroponyms of Armenian origin which overlap areas, populated by Paulicians from the 15th to 18th centuries.
According to the 1935 census in Turkey, 3881 people in Eastern Thrace identified their mother tongue as Bulgarian and 18,382 as Pomak. The overall statistic from 1935 shows that 41,041 people speak Pomak as their mother tongue or as a secondary dialect.
The Pomak language was used mainly in oral communication. As literary standard Pomaks attempt is being formed, it uses a script based on the Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin alphabets.
Examples
;Some phrases and words| English | Rhodope Pomak Dialect |
| Hello | Dobar den, Zdravej |
| I am Pomak/Bulgarian/Bulgarian Muslim | Ja sam Pomak/Balgarin/Balgarski Mohamedanin |
| I speak bulgarian | Ja lafim balgarcko |
| How are you? | Kak si? |
| Thank you | Blagodarja |
| Good day | Dobar den |
| Children | Detine |
| This chair | Aisos skemle |
| That auntie | Ainos lelka |
| Ibrahim is my uncle | Ibrahim e moj amiđa |
| Hatiđa is my sister | Hatiđa e moja sestra |
| My father | Mojet bubajko |
| What are you doing? | Kina rabutaš? |
| I knew | Ja znajeh |
| Do you know? | Znaješ li ti? |
| He was a good man | Toj beše dobar čilak |
| I am from Xanthi | Ja sam ot Skeča |
| One woman from the new village | Enna žena ot novoto selo |
| One day and one night | Edin den i enna nošt |
| Last year | Lani |
Some words and phrases, in the Pomak language, are borrowed from Turkish, Greek, and other languages.
;A sample of the grammar
Spatio-pragmatic and Temporal-modal Uses of Nominals and Noun Modifiers
Three deictics are used for spatio-pragmatic and temporal-modal reference in nominals. These deictics are used among others in noun modifiers such as definite articles and demonstratives:
The cat : Koteso.
The cat : Koteto.
The cat : Koteno.
This is grand-father's snake: Aisos e dedvasa zmie.
That is grand-father's chair: Ainos e dedvasa skemle.