Forum: Linguistics Forum

Many times in this forum we mentioned linguistic injustice which is constantly present in many sources about Turkish loan words in all Balkan...

A phonological peculiarity of most of the so-called northern dialects of modern Greek,that is Macedonian,Thracian,Thessalian,Epirotic (and probably...

As it is well known , the original sound of the greek letter hypsilon (υ,Υ) was /u/ & /yu/ , before the process of iotakism gradually turned it into...

Some abstracts from Otto Hofmann's legendary work "Die Makedonen,Ihre Sprache und Ihr Volkstum" (The Macedonians,their language and their...

The First Compensatory Lengthening was the first of 3 (1CL , 2CL , 3CL) that occured during the Early Iron Age Greek dialectogenesis. In many ways it...

Kassiteros/Tin The Greek name Κασσιτερος was use since Homer. it means "the metal from the land of the Kassi (or the Casseterides)". The...

We all know Sarisa , the long Macedonian pike that surpassed in length all others , but what does the word exactly mean ? The fact that it was...

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One of the arguments in Gandeto/Grezlovski's book is taken from someone called Janice Gabbert (wright State University) The language of citizenship...

Introduction Linguistically of the Skopjians was and is a Bulgarian dialect. Beginning in the 1860 and 70s, the Bulgarian idiom was dubbed...

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/4921/fyrom1944language1br.jpg Modern Slavic Macedonian (makedonski in Slavic Macedonian) is a South Slavic...

March, 2009 In his interview on www.Balkanalysis.com (12/14/2008) , Linguistics professor and Balkan Studies scholar Victor Friedman portrays...

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FOR GOOGLE Can we make a list gents of possible names for FyroMs language? Avoid names like Monkeydonian, ******donian and other such non...

I'll start with a sample of the local Macedonian dialect of my native region.It's a folksong from Petros Houhoulis' village,Agio Pnevma in...

What language did these ‘Macedones’ speak? The name itself is Greek in root and in ethnic termination. It probably means ‘highlanders,’ and it is...

By Miltiades Hatzopoulos, VI International Symposion on Ancient Macedonia, 1999. http://macedonia-evidence.org/macedonian-tongue.html Modern...

http://greek-language.com/History.html This page offers only a very brief introduction to the basics of the history of the Greek Language. For a...

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