Rup dialects

Group of Bulgarian dialects RupRegionEastern Bulgaria, GreeceEthnicityBulgariansLanguage familyIndo-European Balto-SlavicSlavicSouth SlavicBulgarianRupDialects Strandzha Thracian Smolyan (Including:Pomak) Hvoyna Chepino Paulician Zlatograd Babyak Razlog Serres-Nevrokop Language codesISO 639-3None (mis)Glottologrupp1234Map of the Bulgarian dialects within Bulgaria, including Rup. Rup The Rup dialects (Bulgarian: Рупски говори, romanized: Rupski govori), or the Southeastern dialects, are a group of Bulgarian dialects located east of the yat boundary, thus being part of the Eastern dialect. The range of the Rup dialects includes the southern part of Bulgaria, i.e. Strandzha, the region of Haskovo, the Rhodopes and the eastern half of Pirin Macedonia. Overview Before the Balkan Wars and World War I, the Rup dialects covered a much larger territory, including vast areas of Eastern Thrace, Western Thrace and the eastern part of Greek Macedonia. Following the wars, most of the Bulgarian population in these areas fled or resettled to Bulgaria and nowadays, the Rup dialects outside Bulgaria are spoken only by the Muslim Bulgarians (Pomaks) in Western Thrace in Greece. Unlike the