In 1948, at the end of the Greek Civil War, he left his burned village and after a short stay in Socialist Republic of Macedonia went to Hungary, with many refugees from Greek Macedonia.
In 1964, he went to Bulgaria and studied at Sofia University "St. Clement of Ohrid".
In his books, he claimed that the Slavophones of Greek Macedonia are Bulgarians.
[1] He died in September 2003 in a car crash during a field work trip in Greece.
Considering these dialects in comparative plan with Old Bulgarian he explained the development of many sounds, for example ѫ, not with external influences, but with internal processes in the language.