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Ancient Macedonian was the language of the ancient Macedonians which was either a dialect of Ancient Greek or a separate Hellenic language. It was spoken in the kingdom of Macedonia during the 1st millennium BC and belonged to the Indo-European language family.
Ancient Macedonian, whether it was a Greek dialect [8] [9] probably of the Northwestern Doric group in particular, [10] [11] [12] as findings such as Pella curse tablet indicate, [13] or a separate Hellenic language, [14] was gradually replaced by Attic Greek; the latter came in use from the times of Philip II of Macedon and later evolved into ...
Macedonian (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniən / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ən; македонски јазик, translit. makedonski jazik, pronounced [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik] ⓘ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around 1.6 million people, it serves ...
The history of the Macedonian language refers to the developmental periods of current-day Macedonian, an Eastern South Slavic language spoken on the territory of North Macedonia. The Macedonian language developed during the Middle Ages from the Old Church Slavonic, the common language spoken by Slavic people. [further explanation needed] In 1903 Krste Petkov Misirkov was the first to argue for ...
Koiné Greek became the language of the Macedonian Empire; it was widely used as a second language. The term koine, meaning "common" in Greek, was first used to refer to the form of Greek used as a lingua franca during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. [ 4 ]
Hellenic is the branch of the Indo-European language family whose principal member is Greek. [2] In most classifications, Hellenic consists of Greek alone, [3][4] but some linguists use the term Hellenic to refer to a group consisting of Greek proper and other varieties thought to be related but different enough to be separate languages, either ...
Doric or Dorian (Ancient Greek: Δωρισμός, romanized: Dōrismós), also known as West Greek, was a group of Ancient Greek dialects; its varieties are divided into the Doric proper and Northwest Doric subgroups. Doric was spoken in a vast area, including northern Greece (Acarnania, Aetolia, Epirus, western and eastern Locris, Phocis, Doris, and possibly ancient Macedonia), most of the ...
Macedonian Greek (also known as “the Macedonian dialect of modern Greek ”) [15] is a Greek dialect spoken in most of northern Greece, particularly in the rural areas of Macedonia. [16] It is fully intelligible with other Greek dialects. [citation needed] The dialect is usually referred as Makedonika (Greek: Μακεδονικά, Makedoniká, "Macedonian") or Makedonitika ...