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tfe no thumb Ancient Macedonian Language Part V

4)RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MACEDONIAN AND OTHER GREEK TRIBES We have alreadymet various indications of the relations between the Macedonians and other Greek tribes. These relations demonstrate that the Macedonians were a Greek tribe from as early as the Bronze Age. The Macedonians were bound to the Dorians and the MAgnesians by very close ties of kinship. Their ...

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tfe no thumb Ancient Macedonian Language Part IV

5) That the group ay was converted to a is a conjecture based on a very small number of names and words. Since there are also reliable indications that the group was also preserved we may reasonably assume that this is another case in which we have to deal with two different kinds of development: ...

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tfe no thumb Ancient Macedonian Language Part III

3) NAMES. In addition to the Macedonian ethnic name, we today know the ethnic names of some of the Macedonian tribes, scores of place names in Macedonia and dozens of names of gods and heroes, the names of six festivals and twelve months and hundred of personal names covering thousand men and women. The ethnic names ...

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tfe no thumb Ancient Macedonian Language Part II

Taken from: Macedonia: 4000 years of Greek history and civilization" edited by Professor M. B. Sakellariou and published by EKDOTIKI ATHINON. When i need to write something in Greek I use the following convention: g for gamma h for eta j for ksi y for upsilon c for psi v for omega thus the greek alphabet becomes abgdezhuiklmnjoprstyfxcv. Various pointers to references are omitted. The Macedonian Tongue ...

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