Originally posted by Sovius
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1. What serious scholar believes the invading Slavs of the north, regardless of their real name or the Germanic slander involved, spoke languages similar to the indigenous Balkan people?
2. Can you cite me a specific document or ancient historian that suggests this or states this?
3. If these people spoke similar languages, how did this happen? Do you believe in the distant past they descended from the same ethnic tribes, but split into north and south branches, only to make contact again in the future? Do you believe Macedonians, Illyrians, and Thracians shared an ethnic connection with all Slavic speaking peoples? Do you believe that all Slavic speaking people today share a common ethnic ancestry?
4. Or do you believe that these peoples are ethnically unrelated? If so, do you think the northern or southern branch of "Slavic" is older? In what point of time in history do you think this language migrated? And how and why was this new language adopted by people who seemingly spoke another language prior to adopting something resembling "Slavic"? Put differently, we know why the ancient Egyptians adopted Arabic. We know why the Phoenicians adopted Arabic. What was the reason that today's northern Slavs adopted Slavic or today's Balkan people adopted Slavic in ancient times.
Again, ignoring the issue of terminology and semantics.
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