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Originally Posted by Archangelos
Timo, seeing that all the archaeological findings from ancient macedonia all show the greek language, where do you get the idea of a 'macedonian' language?
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I'd like to see such evidence that you speak of first, before I think they spoke greek. As I said, they adopted greek culture and language, and perhaps had no writing system of their own so they used the greek one for writing. I don't claim to know. I am just sceptical of Macedonians as Greeks.
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I'll make an Amendment.
According to Author N.G.L. Hammond, in
The Peguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations: He writes on the Macedonian Civilization in this Encyclopedia, and makes it quite clear that nobody can be sure if the ancient macedonian really spoke greek.
"The surviving words of Macedonian do not show conclusively whether the Macedonians spoke Greek or not in early times." Then he goes on to say that some suggest that they did speak greek in the Aeolic dialect. However, I am rather sceptical, as I said above, since we don't know for sure that the early macedonians did or not.