Re: [tied] Re: Indo-Iranian

george knysh wrote:

>
> ******GK: I think (subject to correction) that
> Moldavians and Romanians are the same people,
> ethnically Romanian, but currently organized as
> distinct states. But of course, it's up to the
> Moldavians to decide if they want to be a nation as
> well as a state. However, I don't think that
> Macedonians and Bulgarians are the same people,
> ethnically Bulgarian, and currently organized as
> distinct states. I think (and so does Eva actually)
> that they are different nationalities, even if closely
> related at the level of language.*****

The matter of statal organisation was not in my mind as I asked. It has
been just the matter of ethnical and linguistic aspects this is why I
asked " how more definitvely" a such relation can be.