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Ancient Macedonian was the language of the ancient Macedonians which was either a dialect of Ancient Greek or a separate Hellenic language. It was spoken in the kingdom of Macedonia during the 1st millennium BC and belonged to the Indo-European language family.
The history of the Macedonian language refers to the developmental periods of current-day Macedonian, an Eastern South Slavic language spoken on the territory of North Macedonia. The Macedonian language developed during the Middle Ages from the Old Church Slavonic, the common language spoken by Slavic people. [further explanation needed]
The Macedonian language has the status of an official language only in North Macedonia, and is a recognized minority and official language in parts of Albania , Romania, Serbia (Jabuka and Plandište) and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The formal written language of ancient Macedonians was inevitably Greek, as was the case for various other ancient peoples. There was really no alternative. However, this in no way assures good relations between peoples, nor does it necessarily show any consciousness of a common interest.
Two Important Facts: All surviving linguistic evidence is written in Greek. The Greek attested already shows a great deal of dialectal diversity within the area controlled by the Macedonian kingdom: West Ionic in Euboean colonies. Insular Ionic in Cycladic colonies. Attic in former member states of the Delian League. Corinthian at Potidaea.
- Matthew Scarborough
- 2014
The history of the ancient Macedonians over a lengthy period of 1,600 years (2,200-600 B.C.) has been reconstructed on the basis of a prejudgement that they could have been nothing other than Greeks. It should be noted that no text whatsoever has been preserved in the ancient Macedonian language.
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About the ancient Macedonian language The Pella curse tablet (κατάδεσμος) is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986.
