One link and one question

My dear friend Istor,

You are sending us here one link and one question.

Let's see what can we learn from the link that you sent us:

Here is the link of the Ancient Macedonian:
http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=XMK

And here is the link of the Ancient Greek (Classical and Coine):
http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=GKO

1. So, the first think we can learn is that the <b>Ancient Greek and the Ancient Macedonian were two different languages.</b>

Here is now a brief description of the Ancient Macedonian language:

Brief Description: The ancient language of the Macedonian kingdom in <b>N. Greece and modern Macedonia</b> during the later 1st millennium BC. Survived until the early 1st millennium AD. Not to be confused with the modern Macedonian language.

2. The second think we can learn is that Ancient Macedonian was <b>spoken both in both Nothern Greece (Aegean Macedonia) and in modern Macedonia (Republic of) Macedonia.</b>

3. The third think we can learn is that the Ancient Macedonian is not the same language with the modern Macedonian language:

Here is the link for the Modern Macedonian language:
http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=MKJ

That makes sense, since the Ancient Macedonian was used until the early 1st millennium AD, and modern Macedonian is used now.

Now your question: Why do we want to call our language Macedonian:

My response: Because it is spoken in Macedonia, and it is spoken by Macedonians. And it is not like we want to start using that name now. We are using it for at least 150 years.

You made a comment that the Ancient Macedonian is not related to the Modern Macedonian. Of course it is. They both are Indo-European languages (check the web page if you don't believe me). The question is how close are they in the family of Indo-European languages. This, I believe, we don't know yet, since we know very little about the Ancient Macedonian language. We only know 150 glosas, and not even one full sentence.

From those 150 glosas, about 70 are closely related with the Slavonic languages (including the Modern Macedonian), and some are almost identical, keeping both the phonetics an the meaning:

Ancient Macedonian: tcelniku = Modern Macedonian: celnik Both mean leader.
Ancient Macedonian: foinik = Modern Macedonian: vojnik Both mean soldier.
Ancient Macedonian: vedi = Modern Macedonian: vodi Both mean waters.
Ancient Macedonian: pez = Modern Macedonian: pesh Both mean to walk on foot.
Ancient Macedonian: pela = Modern Macedonian: spila Both mean large rock.

I hope this helps,
Goran Stojanov