[tied] Re: Indo-Iranian

george knysh wrote:

> 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?******
>

I am afraid I do not understand right the sense of "a relation more
definitively" as the one between Romanians and Moldavinas. How should
be characterised in your eyes as nonmoldavian & nonromanian this
relationship between Romanians and Moldavians?

Alex