Pomak language (Greek: πομακική γλώσσα, pomakiki glosa or πομακικά, pomakika; Bulgarian: помашки език, pomaški ezik; Turkish: Pomakça) is a term used in Greece[1] and Turkey[2] to refer to some of the Rup dialects of the Bulgarian language spoken by the Pomaks of Western Thrace in Greece and Eastern Thrace in Turkey.
[8] There are publications concerning the vocabulary of the Rup dialects[9][10] and anthroponyms of Armenian origin which overlap areas, populated by Paulicians from the 15th to 18th centuries.
[11] According to the 1935 census in Turkey, 3881 people in Eastern Thrace identified their mother tongue as Bulgarian and 18,382 as Pomak.
[12] The overall statistic from 1935 shows that 41,041 people spoke Pomak as their mother tongue or as a secondary dialect.
[13] In the mid-1990s, "Grammar of the Pomash language", "Pomash-Greek" and "Greek-Pomash dictionary" were published in Greece, which, according to Bulgarian linguists, were a political attempt at glottotomy.