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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
Piotr on Ancient Macedonian:
> If it was not a dialect of Greek, it can't be said to have
been "closest" to any Greek dialect, except in terms of areal
affinities. The Aeolian dialects of Thessaly were its neighbours in
historical times, but earlier Doric influence (as in Proto-Albanian)
is also likely.
Caldisticist! If there were once a Hellenic dialect cluster which
split into Greek, Macedonian and perhaps Phrygian, would not some
isoglosses separate Macedonian and some Greek dialects on one hand
from other Greek dialects on the other? (I think I can see something
like this in lexical similarities between the geographically close
Northern Tai dialects (e.g. Northern Zhuang) and the Mak language
which they do not share with other Tai dialects. Unfortunately, my
knowledge of Mak is limited to what I can get from the Rosetta
Project, but it gels with Li's treatment in his 'Handbook of
Comparative Tai' of words restricted to the Northern Tai branch of
Tai.)
Richard.