From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 25527
Date: 2003-09-04
> 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.
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> I don't think Macedonian and any other Hellenic dialects were mutually intelligable and Macedonians were always distinguished from Hellenes and not considered Greeks.
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> -Michael
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> -- "lifeiscool86" <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?
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> Peace out,
> PHIL
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