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"Hesiod certainly thought them to be Greek-speaking; otherwise he would not have made Magnes and Macedon into cousins of Dorus, Xouthus and Aeolus,who were the eponymous ancestors of the three main forms of the Greek language (Dorian, Ionian and Aeolian).Hellanicus, writing late in the fifth century,made Macedon a son of Aeolus; he would not have done so unless he had supposed the Macedones to be speakers of some form of Aeolic Greek.As the twin people,the Magnetes,did speak an Aeolic dialect (this we know from inscriptions),there is no good reason to deny that the Macedones spoke an Aeolic dialect,retarded indeed and broad…”
Note that all these mythical figures, Dorus, Aeolus and Xuthus were regarded as the progenitors of the main Greek tribes, the Dorians, the Aeolians and the Ionians respectivelly, so Greek authors wouldn't that easily consider Macedonians as so close relatives of them if they had any doubts of their Greekness.
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