[tied] Re: morsha

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> So, is Ancient Macedonian closer to Albanian or to
> Greek?

Greek. It is either a dia. or the closest relative of Greek.

> I know the ancient Macedonians were Greek wannabes and
> that modern Greeks are so convinced the Macedonians
> were Greek they have conniption fits whenever anyone
> mentions the "Republic of Macedonia".
> But linguistically speaking, this /b/ vs /ph/ and
> what not seems to distance Anc. Macedonian from Greek,
> and suggest that it was likely a Mischsprache or
> creole (or eventually became one).
> Is there enough data in to tell? Obviously, what we
> have would be what the elite spoke, si there may have
> been some type of diglossia from Greek-flavored
> Macedonian to Macedonian-flavored Greek.
> Or was it close enough to NW Greek to say it was a
> whack Greek dialect influenced by Illyrian or
> Thriacian?

I think it was part of a continuum; unlike most of Greek it had Ch>C
and o>a like its neighbors, but this is probably very old, not
something that happened in historical times.