Torlak (Cyrillic: Торлашки говор; Торлачки говор Latinic: Torlački govor), or Torlakian, is the name used for the Slavic dialects spoken by the Torlaks (in southern and eastern Serbia, southern Kosovo (Prizren), northeast Republic of Macedonia (Kratovo-Kumanovo), western Bulgaria (Belogradchik-Godech-Tran-Breznik), and further afield in the Caraş-Severin County in Romania. Some linguists classify it as the fourth dialect of the Serbo-Croatian lan...
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Torlak (Cyrillic: Торлашки говор; Торлачки говор Latinic: Torlački govor), or Torlakian, is the name used for the Slavic dialects spoken by the Torlaks (in southern and eastern Serbia, southern Kosovo (Prizren), northeast Republic of Macedonia (Kratovo-Kumanovo), western Bulgaria (Belogradchik-Godech-Tran-Breznik), and further afield in the Caraş-Severin County in Romania. Some linguists classify it as the fourth dialect of the Serbo-Croatian language (with Shtokavian, Chakavian and Kaykavian) or as the second Serbian language macro-dialect (with Shtokavian). According to other linguists, these dialects are considered western Bulgarian dialects, and there is a tendency to refer to them as Shop (Shopski). The Shop dialect is the second of two transitional dialects separating the eastern and western branches of South Slavic languages. More correctly, the two dialect regions are adjacent to one another however they be called in different parts. Torlakian is not standardized, and its...
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