--- fortuna11111 <
fortuna11111@...> wrote:
>(PG) The Bulgarian/Macedonian group
> > has always been a dialect continuum in which the
> forces of
> divergence and
> > convergence have been maintaining a state of
> relative
> equilibrium for a very
> > long time.
>
>(ET) No comment. Less-scientifically said, until
1945
> Macedonian
> did not exist. See if you will find historical
> references to this
> language before that date. I am eager to hear about
> them.
*****GK: Just to clarify matters. Would you extend
your contention that Macedonian is not a language
distinct from Bulgarian to ethnicity and nationality,
or would you distinguish these issues? I.e. Do you
accept (or not) that the Macedonians as a group are a
different ethnos or nation (in the "right of nations
to self-determination" sense) from the Bulgarians or
not? Would you see their relationship as something
akin to that of Romanians and Moldavians or as
something more definitively (as far as anything in
this world can be "definitive") established for
purposes of ethno-national identity?******
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
http://sbc.yahoo.com