Re: [tied] Old MACEDONIAN

From: P&G
Message: 25557
Date: 2003-09-06

>the makedonian
> language.
> What kind of language this one has been, this is stil a mistery. But it
> was not a Greek dialect. That is sure.

It is only sure that Greeks did not understand it, and did not think of it
as a Greek dialect. Political bias can be as much a part of that as
anything linguistic. It could still be, in linguistic terms, a "dialect" of
the Greek family.

Peter