Talk:Ancient Macedonian language

No proofs whatsoever that Ancient Macedonian was a different language from Ancient Greek

As for the fact that sometimes Ancient Macedonian words (from Hesychius' glossary) "reveal voiced stops where Greek shows voiceless aspirates", meaning b,d,g, instead of ph, th, kh, a similar, yet not identical thing occurs in German, i.e. within the same language, between dialects of the same language: Low German lopen vs. (High/literary/standard) German laufen, Low German riek, German reich. This Ancient Macedonian shift constitutes by no means a proof that Ancient Macedonian was a different language from Ancient Greek. 2A02:2F07:91EF:FFFF:0:0:4F71:7B3B (talk) 04:43, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

The wording in the article is the result of much careful work from many editors. There is no evidence that the consensus for the current wording has changed. --Taivo (talk) 05:25, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

I just gave you the evidence above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graecophile (talk • contribs) 15:27, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Where are you even getting this information from? Without an academic source on the matter (such as a study by a university press or accredited institution), this might as well be your personal blog and your fanciful opinion. Personally, I think the ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of Greek thanks to pieces of evidence like the Pella curse tablet, but my opinion doesn't mean anything on Wikipedia, only cited material counts. For that matter, talk pages of articles are not forums for debate, they are venues for discussing how to improve the existing article. See WP:FORUM among other things in Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Taivo is right: this article represents the culmination of not only consensus among editors here, but also reflects scholarly opinion and academic consensus. Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:25, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

...In sum, despite what we think about the matter, only the words and ideas of scholars and academics matter here, and some of them have radically different theories about the classification of the ancient Macedonian language. Pericles of Athens^Talk 17:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

The Ancient Macedonian language from Hesychius' glossary looks different from the one of the Pella curse tablet. My opinion is we are talking about two different Greek dialects. The wikipedia article on Ancient Macedonian mentions that some of the words in Hesychius' glossary "reveal voiced stops where Greek shows voiceless aspirates", meaning b,d,g, instead of ph, th, kh which is no proof for its non-Greekness. A similar, yet not identical thing occurs in German, i.e. within the same language, between dialects of the same language: Low German lopen vs. (High/literary/standard) German laufen, Low German riek, German reich.

Who said we are not discussing how to improve the article? I was trying to insert this comparison with German language and I don't understand why it is constantly deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graecophile (talk • contribs) 04:02, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

It will continue to be deleted as long as you don't provide a reliable published source for the claim.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 16:45, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Did you not read my post at all? The single problem others are having with your edits is that they are completely without a source other than your opinion, apparently, since you have failed to provide us with any sort of inline citation quoting or citing an academic source. Unless your edit is based on information found in a book, journal article, or online page connected to a scholarly institution (university, library, museum, historical society, etc.) then I'm afraid your edits will be reverted for clearly violating Wikipedia:No original research. Since you basically talked right over me and failed to observe any of my points, I'll politely end the conversation here as well, since you seem incapable of having a normal conversation. --Pericles of Athens^Talk 16:42, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Isn't there a rule against people that lack common sense and education like "Pericles of Athens"? He should be banned for breaking the rules. What do you mean "I am incapable of having a normal conversation"? Who do you think you are to allow yourself such a language towards me? Are you Greek? Or are you a Slavic so-called "Macedonian" impersonating a Greek? My comparison with German dialects is indeed an original research. So what? That's probably not the first time OR is inserted into wikipedia. It is a good argument in favor of the Greekness of Ancient Macedonian, so you should accept it, unless you are a non-Greek. A consonantal shift is no proof of a different language. That is what I wanted to emphasize. That there are no proofs that Ancient Macedonian was no Greek dialect, even though some of its words show a consonant shift. That's no OR, stating that a consonant shift isn't enough to turn a dialect into a different language. Only the comparison with German (or any other language) is indeed an OR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graecophile (talk • contribs) 12:04, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

It is not allowed to insert Original Research into articles, and while it has certainly been done before, it is our job as editors to remove it when we see it. So please do not insert it again, now that you have clearly understood that it is OR and therefore against the rules. No part of this argument can be added without support in reliable sources. Speculating about other editors ethnicity or using it as an argument is also against the rules by the way. So you need to find a very different approach here, or you will simply end up banned.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 04:50, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

What you don't seem to understand, Graecophile, is that your personal opinion, no matter what data you base it on, is no more than personal opinion. Only the opinions of reliable sources matter. And, in this case, the reliable sources are mixed in their appraisals of how closely related to Ancient Greek the Ancient Macedonian language was. Scholarly opinion ranges from your nationalistic "It's simply Greek" to "It's not Attic Greek, but it's Doric Greek" to "It's not Greek, but it's close to Greek". So the article will continue to reflect the scholarly variation. That's the end of the matter until some future time when scholarly opinion might change. But it might not ever change without further evidence of the Ancient Macedonian language coming to light. --Taivo (talk) 15:21, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

This is the exact quotation from the article page: "There are, however, a number of words that are not easily identifiable as Greek and reveal, for example, voiced stops where Greek shows voiceless aspirates". It refers to the Ancient Macedonian words of Hesychius' glossary. Since you people obviously lack the power to understand simple sentences I will say it again: the above quotation has no relevance, since there are many words in (for instance) German dialects that are not present in standard German and also there are consonantal shifts between dialects of German and standard German. Neither of those 2 is an argument for the non-Greekness of Ancient Macedonian. That should be stated in the article since the above quotation induces, suggests the idea that Ancient Macedonian might not have been Greek based on phony arguments. I hope I made myself clear now, although I am not sure, given your intellectual power. And stop calling me names and threatening me with being banned since I have done nothing to break the rules. If you want to ban somebody, ban "Pericles of Athens" for calling me stupid ("you obviously can't have a normal conversation"). You people are very rude, aggressive and abusive. It is not my fault that you can't understand simple phrases, but to call me names and threaten me at the same time, that is too much. I say it again: the above quotation's text is irrelevant and misleading, people who have no knowledge of linguistics, that is the vast majority of wikipedia users, are inclined to believe that Ancient Macedonian was no Greek dialect, based on 2 phony arguments. The following text should be added to the quotation: "yet these are no conclusive arguments that Ancient Macedonian was no Greek dialect" or "yet there are specific words and consonant shifts in many dialects of many languages". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graecophile (talk • contribs) 01:33, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Macedonian language it has nothing to do with the Greek language.I believe that everyone rights stories that feats there narrative! I can’t believe it everything that I read in the Wikipedia is all twisted when you read about Alexander the Great he was Macedonian. Yes at that time there was Ancient Macedonia the Greek name did not exist in that time . Greece name was born in 1832 and now Greeks claim’s Macedonia to be Ancient Greece that’s absolutely 💯 not true ✌🏻🙏🏻 2603:9009:601:8B54:FDCD:CF28:984C:C597 (talk) 04:04, 8 October 2023 (UTC)