Originally posted by Leo255
It's very difficult today to classify precisely the language of the ancient Macedonians, because so few examples of it have been preserved. But two things about it are reasonably certain, or at least agreed among the experts. It was basically a dialect of Greek, but so interlarded with words of non-Greek, mainly Thracian origin that not just because of accent but also because of vocabulary it could be incomprehensible to speakers of 'standard' Greek dialects. For example, Alexander himself when under the stress of huge emotion is recorded as speaking 'in Macedonian'.
So "Greeks" would not have been able to understand Macedonians.
Perhaps like Germans and English speakers.
Perhaps like French and Romanian speakers.
Who knows?
Nobody knows.
You (especially) don't know.
The professor wrote that in a Geek newspaper and the Greeks were patting themselves on their backs. A big LOL to the Greeks.
Leo (the lying, not Lion) please put your dissertation here. I honestly need some humour in my life right now.
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