At the beginning of October 2023, “Vorbar: a Phraseological Vlach-Serbian Dictionary of the Traditional Culture of the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia” by Paun Es Durlić was published. The book results from the author’s many years of work, his undimmed enthusiasm and thorough knowledge of several disciplines – archaeology, linguistics, anthropology and ethnology. Although an ethnologist by profession, Durlić is the author of one of the first transcription systems of the Vlach variety. As Vlach is one of the vulnerable language varieties in Serbia covered by our project, we welcome the publication of this important and comprehensive lexicographic book, hoping that it will support the maintenance of the language and ethno-cultural identity of the Vlach minority, and that it will offer a clearer picture of the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia, who, as the author claims, are threatened by total assimilation and disappearance from the ethnic map of Serbia.
