Dianel Fried, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs made a statement, that there is a Macedonian people and a Macedonian language, however it doesn't have to do with the ancient Macedonians!!!
That is absurd. If it has to do with the modern era, then how can a country occupying 10% of the geographical area of Macedonia and only 30% of that country being on that 10% have claim to the Macedonian name and language? Because they and their patrons say so?
If there is a Macedonian people, those are the Greeks living in northern Greece. And they are Greeks as much as Alexander the Great was Greek, as much as Pericles and Socrates were Greeks
and as much as Cretans were and are Greeks.
There is NO Macedonian language, because their idiom is 99% similar to Bulgarian and because in ancient Macedonia, everybody spoke the Macedonian Greek dialect.
Kiro Gligorof, the former Prime minister of FYROM had stated that they are Slav Macedonians that came to the area of Macedonia a thousand years after the death of Alexander the Great. Fine... put an ethnic or a geographical term in front of the name Macedonia and use it to name that country. However the language is NOT and will never be Macedonian.
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