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(2) The Language of Ancient Macedonians according to modern Linguists and Historians
* Hammond & Griffith "A History of Macedonia 550-336 BC" Vol II
"Macedonian was not a non-Greek language but a dialect of the
Greek language in which Alexander spoke for a special purpose;
and in the case of his order the vocabulary, as well as the
pronunciation, was ... Tags: ancient greece, ancient macedonian dialect, ancient macedonian language, dorian, Greek Language, greeks, malcolm errington, N.G.L Hammond, north-west greek, olivier masson, oxford classical dictionary, p.a. brunt, thomas martin
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[Iliad , XX.74]
«ἄντα δ' ἄρ' Ἡφαίστοιο μέγας ποταμὸς βαθυδίνης,
ὃν Ξάνθον καλέουσι θεοί, ἄνδρες δὲ Σκάμανδρον.»
"...the great, deep-eddying river, that gods called Xanthus, and men Scamander."
Apparently , Skamandros must have been a river with clean/pure water and that induced the original anatolian speaking Trojans to call him with a name that derives from PIE *scand- . ... Tags: Aeolians, Ancient Macedonia, ancient macedonian dialect, homer, illyrians, Ionians, μακεδονιστί, Language, Linguistics, macedonia, macedonians, northern greek dialect, thessaly
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The speech of the ancient Macedonians, in the light of recent epigraphic discoveries
By Miltiades Hatzopoulos, VI International Symposion on Ancient Macedonia, 1999.
Modern discussion of the speech of the ancient Macedonians began in 1808, when F. G. Sturz published a small book entitled De dialecto macedonica liber (Leipzig 1808), intended to be a scientific enquiry into ... Tags: Aiolos, Alexander the Great, ancient macedonian dialect, ancient macedonian language, Brixhe, Bryges, Brygians, dionysophon, Indo-European, International Symposion on Ancient Macedonia, Makedon, masson, Miltiades Hatzopoulos, oxford, Panayotou, sturz, thetima
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