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theese words are written by Antipatar(Macedonian lider and commander) on "glosa"(stone - cause theMacedonians didn't have alfabet )- proving they were not greeks.

2006-06-23 03:06:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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why Italians who were speaking LATIN today they don't know this ancient language?
is called modernization by assimilation of other languages

2006-06-23 03:12:33 · answer #1 · answered by qwq 5 · 7 5

Zdrasti Vasko!
Well, it seems like you have missed some etymology and language classes! Someone before me answered to your etymology question.
On Social level now: You claim that Macedonians are not Greeks, and you are correct, they are not, what are they?
I would like to learn! Of course they could be Illirians! Or are they Pelasgians? What do your sources support?
Among the most ancient sources I have are Hesiod, Homer, Orpheus and others and the 7,500 year old carved on wood symbols of the lake of Dispilio (Central Macedonia)! IT has been proved the symbols are Greek. Does this mean that that time in the region now called Macedonia (either free, within Greece, of under the Bulgarians, or trying to find identity) were no Macedonians but they came later? And if so, when, from where?
I would love to extend my knowledge. Thank you in advance!

2006-06-23 19:38:20 · answer #2 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 1 1

As time goes on, language eveolves and it is influenced by use (in business, law, daily etc) and other contemporray languages. This has been the case with the English language where the medieval form of speech and writing is not generally used in daily use of language. As such, certain words/phrases become lost to us as the language changes.

PS: I like the comment made about Latin -vs- Italian because it brings the point home.

2006-06-23 10:17:52 · answer #3 · answered by boston857 5 · 0 0

You of course don't know what you are saying!
The words you are using are pure Greek!
The word "sarisoforoi" in proper Greek "Σαρισοφόροι" it come from 2 Greek words. The word "Σάρισα" which is a long spear and the verb "φέρω" which means I carry (I bring or I hold) . So the word actually means the Sarisa bearers which was an elite Greek phalanx evolved by the real Macedonians of Greece! And of course its Greek.
The “sal so do sa” you have written is completely wrong! Please provide the proper Greek text so I can tell you exactly what it means! If you don’t have a Greek text then you obviously make it up!
You mention Antipater (and not Antipatar!) (Antipater (properly written in Greek: Αντίπατρος -Antipatros; c. 397 BC — 319 BC. His name means “in his father place!” Yes I know.. All Macedonian names are Greek!)You said that he wrote those Greek words in a “glosa”. (Where exactly have you found written that?) Well the word “Glosa” Greek “Γλώσα” (yes another Greek word) means “tongue” or “Language” and it certainly doesn’t mean stone!! I can’t see were you seeing evidence that the ancient Macedonians were not Greeks!! You obviously are being miss leaded!
Macedonians as every other Greeks they spoke and wrote in Greek! The most important evidence is the archaeological discoveries! The archaeological discoveries from real Macedonia are the strongest proof that ancient Macedonia was part of the ancient Greek world. All the inscriptions on monuments, coins and other artifacts have the Greek language on them. There are no ancient monuments with a different language. Furthermore there are a large number of discoveries in Asia in the route of Alexander the Great. All these monuments, discovered in Pakistan, Kuweit, India and many more countries, prove that Alexanders quest was Greek and that his goal was to spread the Greek civilization all over the world.
Let me give you a small example (not from Greeks but from Romans writers!)
The Roman writer Titus Livius says : (from "The Foundation of the City", Paragraph 31)
"The Aitolians, the Akarnanians, the Macedonians, men of the same language, are united or disunited by trivial causes that arise from time to time; with aliens, with barbarians, all Greeks wage and will wage eternal war; for they are enemies by the will of nature, which is eternal, and not from reasons that change from day to day."
Didorus of Sicily (17.67.1) says:
"After this Alexander left Dareius's mother, his daughters, and his son in Susa, providing them with persons to teach them the Greek language, and marching on with his army on the fourth day reached the Tigris River. "
But let’s see what your country officials say about it! Here are some references:
The first President of FYROM (Slav Macedonia or Makedonija), Kiro Gligorov said: “We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35). Also, Mr Gligorov declared: "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia… Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" (Toronto Star, March 15, 1992).
On 22 January 1999, Ambassador of the FYROM to USA, Ljubica Achevska gave a speech on the present situation in the Balkans. In answering questions at the end of her speech Mrs. Acevshka said: "We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great …” In reply to another question about the ethnic origin of the people of FYROM, Ambassador Achevska stated that "we are Slavs and we speak a Slav language”.
On 24 February 1999, in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, “There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country".
Anything more?

2006-06-23 11:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by ragzeus 6 · 2 2

Modern and ancient versions of the same language are not necessarily compatible ... there are different versions of Latin, Greek, Chinese, Egyptian, etc. .. not to include dialect, but the ancient verse is different from its modernized descendant

2006-06-23 12:29:25 · answer #5 · answered by icehoundxx 6 · 0 0

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