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There is a historical controversy surrounding a Greek minority within North Macedonia, that stems from the late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman era statistical treatment of Aromanian and Slavic-speaking population groups in the area, which partially used to identify themselves as Greeks as part of the Rum millet. [7]
The Macedonian language, written using its Cyrillic alphabet, is the official language throughout the Republic of North Macedonia and in the international relations of the Republic of North Macedonia. Any other language spoken by at least 20 percent of the population is also an official language, written using its alphabet, as specified below.
The Pella curse tablet, a text written in a distinct Doric Greek dialect, found in 1986 and dated to between mid to early 4th century BC, has been forwarded as an argument that the ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of North-Western Greek, part of the Doric dialect group. [47]
Ancient Macedonian, whether it was a Greek dialect [8] [9] probably of the Northwestern Doric group in particular, [10] [11] [12] as findings such as Pella curse tablet indicate, [13] or a separate Hellenic language, [14] was gradually replaced by Attic Greek; the latter came in use from the times of Philip II of Macedon and later evolved into ...
Several hypotheses have consequently been proposed as to the position of Macedonian, all of which broadly regard it as either a peripheral Greek dialect, a closely related but separate language (see Hellenic languages), [210] [213] [214] or a hybridized idiom incorporating Brygian, Northwest Greek and Thessalian Greek.
The term has been also employed by ethnic Macedonians against Slavic Macedonians with a Greek identity. [6] The "Grecomans" are regarded as ethnic Greeks in Greece , but as members of originally non-Greek, but subsequently Hellenized minorities, in the neighboring countries.
This article is about the modern South Slavic language. For the extinct Hellenic language, see Ancient Macedonian language. ‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Macedonian македонски makedonski Pronunciation [maˈkɛdɔnski] Native to North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia Region Balkans Ethnicity Macedonians Native speakers 1.6 ...
This includes Pontic Greek, a language spoken originally on the shores of the Black Sea in northeastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, as well as a dialect indigenous to Greek Macedonia and other parts of Northern Greece known as Sarakatsánika (Greek: Σαρακατσάνικα); spoken by the traditionally transhumant Greek subgroup of Sarakatsani.