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The overwhelming majority of the Greek Macedonians speak a variant of Greek, called Macedonian (Μακεδονίτικα, Makedonitika). It belongs to the northern dialect group, with phonological and few syntactical differences distinguishing it from standard Greek which is spoken in southern Greece.
Ernst Badian notes that nearly all surviving references to antagonisms and differences between Greeks and Macedonians exist in the written speeches of Arrian, who lived during a period (i.e. the Roman Empire) in which any notion of an ethnic disparity between Macedonians and other Greeks was incomprehensible. [232]
Ernst Badian notes however that nearly all surviving references to antagonisms and differences between Greeks and Macedonians exist in the written speeches of Arrian, who lived at the time of the Roman Empire, when any notion of an ethnic disparity between Macedonians and other Greeks was incomprehensible. [314]
Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes [makeˈðones]) is the term by which ethnic Greeks originating from the region are known. [109] [110] Macedonians came to be of particular importance prior to the Balkan Wars, during the Macedonian Struggle, when they were a minority population inside the multiethnic Ottoman Macedonia.
Macedonians (Greeks) c. 2.6 million plus diaspora [352] An ethnic Greek regional group, also referred to as Greek Macedonians. Ancient Macedonians: Unknown: A tribe of antiquity on the periphery of the Greek world Macedonians (Bulgarians) c. 320,000: A Bulgarian regional group; [348] also referred to as Piriners. Macedo-Romanians: c. 0.3 ...
An ethnic Greek regional group, also referred to as Greek Macedonians: Macedonians (unknown population) A group of antiquity, also referred to as Ancient Macedonians. Macedonians c. 0.3 million: A Bulgarian regional group, [53] also referred to as Piriners: Macedo-Romanians c. 0.3 million: An alternative name for Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians
A fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, quoted by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, states: "Macedonia the country was named after Makedon, the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, as the poet Hesiod relates; and she became pregnant and bore to thunder-loving Zeus, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, the horse lover, those who dwelt in mansions around Pieria and Olympus".
Ancient Greek in classical antiquity, before the development of the common Koine Greek of the Hellenistic period, was divided into several varieties.. Most of these varieties are known only from inscriptions, but a few of them, principally Aeolic, Doric, and Ionic, are also represented in the literary canon alongside the dominant Attic form of literary Greek.