Hi Phil,
My understanding was that it was closest to Aeolian, and either a seperate Hellenic branch, a seperate Indo-European branch from Hellenic but sharing much in common with it, or Macedonian and Hellenic were two seperate branches of a kind of "Macedonian-Hellenic."
Of course, I don't really know a whole lot about it and I could be wrong.
I don't think Macedonian and any other Hellenic dialects were mutually intelligable and Macedonians were always distinguished from Hellenes and not considered Greeks.
-Michael
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lifeiscool86@...> wrote:
What is OLD MACEDONIAN exactly?? Not Macedonian the Slavic tongue..
but Macedonian, like Alexander the Great the Phil-Hellene.. Some
say, it's a mixture of Thracian and Illyrian.. personally, I guess
so... but I really don't know for sure.
Some say it's Hellenic.. but it can't be! The Macedonian Kingdom was
somehow Hellenized, the language and all (therefore previously non-
Hellenic), and those same Macedonians were reffered to as barbarians
by the Greeks. Is there a real genuine "Old Macedonian" language, a
language that is relative to another IE tongue -- I mean, not just a
mixture of Thracian and Illyrian?
P.S. Thracian is related to the Germano-Balto-Slavic group, right?
Peace out,
PHIL
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