Torlak is a group of Old Štokavian South Slavic dialects spoken mainly in southeastern Serbia, but also in southeastern Kosovo, the easternmost regions of Bulgaria, the northernmost parts of Macedonia, and the Caraş-Severin county in Romania (Belić 1905; Ivić 1985: 110–131; Lisac 2003: 141–152; Mišeska-Tomić 2006: 118–119; Sobolev 1998; Salminen 2010: 37). Its status and classification with regard to official languages remain a …