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Torlak

noun

Meaning

  1. The unstandardized South Slavic dialect group spoken by the Torlaks.
  2. Any of a group of Slavic inhabitants of western Bulgaria, south-eastern Serbia and northern North Macedonia, who speak a common dialect.

Etymology / origin

Probably a derivative of Serbo-Croatian torlati (“to talk noisily”), though other theories exist.

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