Slavic dialects of Greece

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Traditional non-Greek languages zones in Greece. Greek is the dominant language throughout Greece; inclusion in a non-Greek language zone does not necessarily imply that the relevant minority language is still spoken there.
Proclamation of Greek nationalists from 1926, per which the Bulgarian language is forbidden for the locals. Lerin 27 Jan 1926b.JPG
Proclamation of Greek nationalists from 1926, per which the Bulgarian language is forbidden for the locals.
"Slavomacedonian voice" newspaper from March 25, 1944. The newspaper was published in a non-standardized Kostur dialect by the Slavomacedonian National Liberation Front during the WWII. Slavianomakedonski glas.jpg
"Slavomacedonian voice" newspaper from March 25, 1944. The newspaper was published in a non-standardized Kostur dialect by the Slavomacedonian National Liberation Front during the WWII.

The Slavic dialects of Greece are the Eastern South Slavic dialects of Macedonian and Bulgarian spoken by minority groups in the regions of Macedonia and Thrace in northern Greece. Usually, dialects in Thrace are classified as Bulgarian, while the dialects in Macedonia are classified as Macedonian, with the exception of some eastern dialects which can also be classified as Bulgarian. Before World War II, most linguists [2] considered all of these dialects to be Bulgarian dialects. [3] [4] [5] [6] However, other linguists opposed this view and considered Macedonian dialects as comprising an independent language distinct from both Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

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Slavic dialects spoken in the region of Greek Macedonia

The continuum of Macedonian and Bulgarian is spoken today in the prefectures of Florina and Pella, and to a lesser extent in Kastoria, Imathia, Kilkis, Thessaloniki, Serres and Drama. [12]

According to Riki van Boeschoten, the Slavic dialects of Greek Macedonia are divided into three main dialects (Eastern, Central and Western), of which the Eastern dialect is used in the areas of Serres and Drama, and is closest to Bulgarian, the Western dialect is used in Florina and Kastoria, and is closest to Macedonian, the Central dialect is used in the area between Edessa and Salonica and is an intermediate between Macedonian and Bulgarian. [13] [14] Trudgill classifies certain peripheral dialects in the far east of Greek Macedonia as part of the Bulgarian language area and the rest as Macedonian dialects. [15] Victor Friedman considers those Macedonian dialects, particularly those spoken as west as Kilkis, to be transitional to the neighbouring South Slavic language. [16]

Macedonian dialectologists Božidar Vidoeski and Blaže Koneski considered the eastern Macedonian dialects to be transitional to Bulgarian, including the Maleševo-Pirin dialect. [17] [18]

Bulgarian dialectologists claim all dialects and do not recognize the Macedonian. They divide Bulgarian dialects mainly into Eastern and Western by a separating isogloss(dyado, byal/dedo, bel "grandpa, white"(m., sg.)) stretching from Salonica to the meeting point of Iskar and Danube, except for the isolated phenomena of the Korcha dialect as an of Eastern Bulgarian Rup dialects in the western fringes. [19]

The nasal vowels are absent in all Slavic dialects except for the dialects of Macedonian in Greece and the Lechitic dialects (Polabian, Slovincian, Polish and Kashubian). [20] This, along with the preservation of the paroxitonic in the Kostur dialect and Polish, is part of a series of isoglosses shared with the Lechitic dialects, which led to the thesis of a genetic relationship between Proto-Bulgarian and Proto-Macedonian with Proto-Polish and Proto-Kashubian. [21]

The Old Church Slavonic language, the earliest recorded Slavic language, was based on the Salonica dialects. [22] Church Slavonic, long-used as a state language further north in East and West Slavic states and as the only one in Wallachia and Moldavia until the 18th century, [23] influenced other Slavic languages on all levels, including morphonology and vocabulary. [24] 70% of Church Slavonic words are common to all Slavic languages, [25] the influence of Church Slavonic is especially pronounced in Russian, which today consists of mixed native and Church Slavonic vocabulary.

Fringe views

A series of ethnological and pseudo-linguistic works were published by three Greek teachers, notably Boukouvalas and Tsioulkas, whose publications demonstrate common ideological and methodological similarities. They published etymological lists tracing every single Slavic word to Ancient Greek with fictional correlations, and they were ignorant of the dialects and the Slavic languages entirely. [26] Among them, Boukouvalas promoted an enormous influence of the Greek language on a Bulgarian idiom and a discussion about their probable Greek descent. [26] Tsioulkas followed him by publishing a large book, where he "proved" through an "etymological" approach, that these idioms are a pure Ancient Greek dialect. [26] A publication of the third teacher followed, Giorgos Georgiades, who presented the language as a mixture of Greek, Turkish and other loanwords, but was incapable of defining the dialects as either Greek or Slav. [26]

Serbian dialectology does not usually extend the Serbian dialects to Greek Macedonia, but an unconventional classification has been made by Aleksandar Belić, a convinced Serbian nationalist, who regarded the dialects as Serbian. [26] In his classification he distinguished three categories of dialects in Greek Macedonia: a Serbo-Macedonian dialect, a Bulgaro-Macedonian territory where Serbian is spoken and a Non-Slavic territory.

Ban for use, language shift and language death

After the conclusion of the First World War a widespread policy of Hellenisation was implemented in the Greek region of Macedonia. [27] [28] [29] Personal and topographic names were forcibly changed to their Greek versions. [30] Cyrillic inscriptions across Northern Greece were removed from gravestones and churches. [30] [31] Under the regime of Ioannis Metaxas a law was passed banning the Bulgarian language. [32] [33] Many people who broke the rule were deported, [34] or arrested, and beaten. [28] During the Cold War cases of discrimination against people who spoke in local dialects had been reported. In 1959 the inhabitants of three villages adopted a 'language oath', renouncing their Slavic dialect on the initiative of local government officials. [35] After the fall of Communism the issue has continued. In 1994 report by the Human Rights Watch, Greece implemented a program, which refuses the teaching of any Slavic language. The Greek state continues to exclude the Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia from operating TV-, or radio-stations in local Slavic. [36] As result per Christian Voss in the Western and Central areas of Greek Macedonia is visible the typical situation of language shift and decreased proficiency from the Slavic vernacular to Greek as follows: "Households with almost monoglot Slavic-speaking grandparents, bilingual parents, and monoglot Greek-speaking children with a passive knowledge of Slavic." On the other hand, in Eastern Macedonia are a symptoms of full assimilation, which led to a language death. [37]

Slavic dialects spoken in the region of Thrace

The yat (*e) split in the Eastern South Slavic. Jouko Lindstedt has assumed that this isogloss is the dividing line between Bulgarian and Macedonian. Bgmap yat.png
The yat (*ě) split in the Eastern South Slavic. Jouko Lindstedt has assumed that this isogloss is the dividing line between Bulgarian and Macedonian.

Some of the Rup dialects of the Bulgarian language are spoken by the Pomaks in Western Thrace in Greece. These dialects are native also in Bulgaria, and are classified as part of the Smolyan subdialect. [39] Not all Pomaks speak this dialect as their mother language. [40] It is generally qualified by Bulgarian researchers as an "archaic dialect" with some conservative features, which bear witness to an intermediate state of transition from Old Bulgarian/Old Church Slavonic to the modern Bulgarian language. [41]

Attempts of codification

Greek governmental codification

Front page of the original Abecedar, published in 1925 Abecedar 1925 frontpage.jpg
Front page of the original Abecedar, published in 1925

Under the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, Greece had agreed to open schools for minority-language children. In September 1924 Greece also agreed to a protocol with Bulgaria to place its Slavic-speaking minority under the protection of the League of Nations as Bulgarians. However, the Greek parliament refused to ratify the protocol due to objections from Serbia, and from Greeks who considered the Slavic-speakers to be Greeks rather than Slavic people. [42] Vasilis Dendramis, the Greek representative in the League of the Nations, stated that the Macedonian Slav language was neither Bulgarian, nor Serbian, but an independent language. The Greek government went ahead with the publication in May 1925 of the Abecedar , described by contemporary Greek writers as a primer for "the children of Slav speakers in Greece ... printed in the Latin script and compiled in the Macedonian dialect." [43] The book's publication sparked controversy in Greek Macedonia, along with Bulgaria and Serbia. The Bulgarians and Serbs objected to the book being printed in Latin alphabet. [44] In January 1926, the region of Florina saw extensive protests by Greek and pro-Greek Slavic speakers campaigning against the primer's publication, demanding the government change its policies on minority education. [45] As a result, although some books reached villages in Greek Macedonia, it was never used in their schools. [42]

Greek communists' codification

Primer published by the Greek communist publisher "Nea Ellada" in Bucharest (1949). Primer Nea Elada.jpg
Primer published by the Greek communist publisher "Nea Ellada" in Bucharest (1949).
A textbooks in Pomak language printed in 2004 in Greece. Pomak language textbook.jpg
A textbooks in Pomak language printed in 2004 in Greece.

After the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, under the auspices of some Macedonian intellectuals in Bucharest, anti-Yugoslav alphabet, grammar, and primer closer to Bulgarian, purported to be "purified" of the Serbo-Croatian loanwords of the "language of Skopje" were created. [46] [47] The Communist Party of Greece led by Nikos Zahariadis took the side of the Cominform. After the defeat of communists in the Greek Civil War in 1949, a hunt for Titoist spies began in the midst of Greek political immigrants - civil war refugees, living in socialist countries in Eastern Europe. As a result, the Greek communist publisher "Nea Ellada" issued a Macedonian grammar (1952) and developed a different alphabet. Between 1952 and 1956, the Macedonian Department of Nea Hellas published a number of issues in this literary standard, officially called "Macedonian language of the Slavomacedonians from Greek or Aegean Macedonia". This failed attempt of codification included the Ъ, Ь, Ю, Я, Й and was proclaimed as "non-serbianised." However, it was merely a form of Bulgarian. [48] This codification did not gain widespread acceptance. [49] The Soviet-Yugoslav rapprochement from the mid-1950s probably helped to put this codification to an end. [47] The grammar was prepared by a team headed by Atanas Peykov. [50] Atanas Peykov himself came to Romania from Bulgaria, where until 1951 he had worked at the Informbureau of Hellas Press. The Aegean Macedonian norm made some Aegean emigrants unable to adopt the Macedonian standard language in Yugoslavia, where many of them settled. [47]

Communist refugees from Greece in Australia

The Macedonian Greek Civil War refugees in Australia issued a Makedonska Iskra (Macedonian Spark). It was the first Macedonian newspaper published in Australia, from 1946 to 1957. The Makedonska Iskra was also thrown into confusion by the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. [51] The newspaper was printed in the Latin alphabet. Its articles were not in standard Macedonian but in local Slavic dialects of Greece. Some of the Slavic texts were in mixed Bulgaro-Macedonian language or were written in Bulgarian language. [52] A monthly with national distribution, it commenced in Perth and later moved to Melbourne and Sydney.

Pomak language

In Greece, attempts to write the Pomak language in formal publications have been criticized because their script, whether it was in Greek or in Latin. Since the 1990s several publications in Pomak dialect have been issued using either script. Some criticisms to these publications were related to their funding sources. For example, by the cases using the Greek script, two volumes of a textbooks were printed in 2004. Their author was Nikos Kokkas and publisher Pakethra. Its funding was provided by a Greek businessman and directly through his company. The preface of a Pomak primer presents it as one of the "lesser-spoken languages" of Europe. [53] The use of Pomak in writing is very limited. It is even not used in the local Pomak newspaper "Zagalisa", that is published in Greek. Recently, the use of Pomak is preferred in a new local newspaper "Natpresh". Pomak is not being actively promoted by either Pomak communities or by Greek authorities. The result is a strong language shift in Greece towards Turkish. [41]

Features

Comparison of the Slavic dialects of Greece with Standard Macedonian and Bulgarian
Proto SlavicOld Church SlavonicStandard MacedonianLower Prespa dialectLerin dialectKostur dialectNestram-Kostenar dialectSolun-Kukuš-Voden dialectLagadin-Ser-Drama dialectPomak dialect of KomotiniBulgarian
tʲšt/щ (ʃt)
kj/ќ (c)
леќa/lekja		št/щ (ʃt)
лещa/lešta		št/щ or šč/шч (ʃt/ʃtʃ)
лещa/
lešta		šč/шч (ʃtʃ)
лешчa/lešča		šč/шч (ʃtʃ)
лешчa/lešča		št/щ (ʃt)
лещa/
lešta		št/щ (ʃt)
лещa/
lešta		št/щ (ʃt)
лещa/lešta		št/щ (ʃt)
лещa/lešta
dʲžd/жд (ʒd)gj/ѓ (ɟ)
меѓу/megju		žd/жд (ʒd)
между/meždu		žd/жд (ʒd)
между/meždu		ž/ж (ʒ)
межу/mežu		ždž/жџ (ʒdʒ)
межджу/meždžu		žd/жд (ʒd)
между/meždu		žd/жд (ʒd)
между/meždu		žd/жд (ʒd)
между/meždu		žd/жд (ʒd)
между/meždu
gd/ktšt/щ (ʃt)kj/ќ (c)
ноќ/nokj		š(t)/ш(щ)(ʃ/ʃt)
нош/noš		(j)kj/(ј)ќ (c)
но(ј)ќ/no(j)kj		š(č)/ш(ч) (ʃ/ʃtʃ) and gj/ѓ (ɟ)
нош/noš		š(ч)/ш(ч)(ʃ/ʃtʃ' and jk/jк (k)
нош/noš		(j)kj/(ј)ќ (c) and (j)gj/(ј)ѓ (ɟ)
но(ј)ќ/no(j)kj or но(ј)ѓ/no(j)gj		št/щ (ʃt)
нощ/nošt		š/ш(ʃ)
нош/noš		št/щ (ʃt)
нощ/nošt
Yat Ѣ, ѣ (ja)e (ɛ)
бел/бели		e (ɛ)
бел/бели		e (ɛ)
бел/бели		e (ɛ)
бел/бели		e (ɛ)
бел/бели		e (ɛ)
бел/бели
бæл/бæли (Solun)		ја/е (ʲa/ɛ)
бял/бели
sometimes ја/æ (ʲa/æ)
бял/бæли (Drama region)		æ (æ)
бæл/бæли		ја/е (ʲa/ɛ)
бял/бели
Yus Ѫ, ѫ (ɔ̃) and Ѧ, ѧ (ɛ̃)а (a)
маж/maž, заб/zab		а (a)
маж/maž, заб/zab		а (a)
sometimes ъ (ə) (Southern region)
маж/maž, заб/zab/ зъб/zəb мъж/məʒ		ăn/ън (ən), ôn/ôн, ôm/ôм (ɒn/m)before voiced stops
мъж/măž, зъмб/zămb
мôж/môž, зôмб/zômb		ăm/ъм (əm), em/ем (em), ôn/ôн, ôm/ôм (ɒn/m)
мъж/măž, зъмб/zămb
мôж/môž, зôмб/zômb		ă/ъ (ə) sometimes ън (ən) (Solun region)
мъnж/mănž, зънб/zănb

мънж/mănž, зънб/zănb		ăn/ън (ə)
мънж/mănž, зънб/zănb		o (ɔ)
мoж/mož, зoб//zob		ă/ъ (ə)
мъж/măž, зъб/zăb
Yer ъ (ə)о (ɔ)
волк/volk		о (ɔ)
волк/volk		ъ (ə), ъл (əл)
вък/vək

/ (Southeastern region)
вълк/vălk

ъ (ə)
вълк/vəlk		ǒ (ô) / â (â)
вôлк/vôlk вâлк/vâlk		о (ɔ), ъ (ə) (Solun region)
волк/volk
вълк/vălk		ă/ъ (ə)
вълк/vălk		о (ɔ)
волк/volk		ă/ъ (ə)
вълк/vălk

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  10. ↑ "Несмотря на значительное диаметральное разнообразие, македонские говоры представляют собою единство и заметно отличаются от народных говоров Фракии, Родоп, Мизии и Балкан" [Despite their considerable diametrical diversity, Macedonian dialects represent a [linguistic] whole and differ markedly from the folk dialects of Thrace, the Rhodopes, Moesia and the Balkans ]. Berstein, S. (1938), Great Soviet Encyclopedia , no. 36, p. 743, cited in Bernstein (1944), Несколько замечаний о македонском литературном языке [Some remarks on the Macedonian literary language].
  11. ↑ Alexis Heraclides, The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A History, Taylor & Francis, 2021, ISBN   9780429266362, pp. 152–153.
  12. ↑ "The European Union and Lesser-Used Languages". European Parliament. 2002: 77. Archived from the original on 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2019-01-13. Macedonian and Bulgarian are the two standard languages of the eastern group of south Slavonic languages. In Greek Macedonia several dialectal varieties, very close to both standard Macedonian and Bulgarian, are spoken ... The two words (Macedonian and Bulgarian) are used here primarily because they are the names the speakers use to refer to the way they speak. In fact, many speak of 'our language' (nasi) or 'the local language' (ta dopia): the use of actual names is a politically charged national issue ... Yet (Slavo)Macedonian/ Bulgarian is still spoken by considerable numbers in Greek Macedonia, all along its northern borders, specially in the Prefectures of Florina, Pella, and to a lesser extent in Kastoria, Kilkis, Imathia, Thessalonika, Serres and Drama.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ↑ Boeschoten, Riki van (1993): Minority Languages in Northern Greece. Study Visit to Florina, Aridea, (Report to the European Commission, Brussels) "The Western dialect is used in Florina and Kastoria and is closest to the language used north of the border, the Eastern dialect is used in the areas of Serres and Drama and is closest to Bulgarian, the Central dialect is used in the area between Edessa and Salonica and forms an intermediate dialect"
  14. ↑ Ioannidou, Alexandra (1999). Questions on the Slavic Dialects of Greek Macedonia. Athens: Peterlang. pp. 59, 63. ISBN   9783631350652. Archived from the original on 2023-04-28. Retrieved 2019-01-28. In September 1993 ... the European Commission financed and published an interesting report by Riki van Boeschoten on the "Minority Languages in Northern Greece", in which the existence of a "Macedonian language" in Greece is mentioned. The description of this language is simplistic and by no means reflective of any kind of linguistic reality; instead it reflects the wish to divide up the dialects comprehensibly into geographical (i.e. political) areas. According to this report, Greek Slavophones speak the "Macedonian" language, which belongs to the "Bulgaro-Macedonian" group and is divided into three main dialects (Western, Central and Eastern) - a theory which lacks a factual basis.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
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  16. ↑ Heine, Bernd; Kuteva, Tania (2005). Language Contact and Grammatical Change. Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN   9780521608282. Archived from the original on 2024-04-27. Retrieved 2020-10-03. in the modern northern and eastern Macedonian dialects that are transitional to Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian, e.g. in Kumanovo and Kukus/Kilkis, object reduplication occurs with less consistency than in the west-central dialects
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  21. ↑ Popowska-Taborska, Hanna (2014). Wczesne dzieje Słowian w świetle ich języka (PDF). Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk. pp. 99–100. ISBN   978-83-64031-10-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on Nov 23, 2018. Chodzi o wnioskowanie na podstawie różnego rodzaju zbieżności językowych o domniemanym usytuowaniu przodków współczesnych reprezentantów języków słowiańskich w ich słowiańskiej praojczyźnie. Trzy najbardziej popularne w tym względzie koncepcje dotyczą: 1. domniemanych związków genetycznych Słowian północnych (nadbałtyckich) z północnym krańcem Słowiańszczyzny wschodniej, 2. domniemanych związków genetycznych Protopolaków (Protokaszubów) z Protobułgarami i Protomacedończykami oraz … Również żywa jest po dzień dzisiejszy wysunięta w 1940 r. przez Conewa [Conev 1940] teza o domniemanych genetycznych związkach polsko-bułgarskich, za którymi świadczyć mają charakteryzująca oba języki szeroka wymowa kontynuantów ě, nagłosowe o- poprzedzone protezą, zachowanie samogłosek nosowych w języku polskim i ślady tych samogłosek w języku bułgarskim, akcent paroksytoniczny cechujący język polski i dialekty kosturskie. Za dawnymi związkami lechicko-bułgarsko-macedońskimi opowiada się też Bernsztejn [Bernštejn 1961, 1965], który formułuje tezę, że przodkowie Bułgarów i Macedończyków żyli w przeszłości na północnym obszarze prasłowiańskim w bliskich związkach z przodkami Pomorzan i Polaków. Do wymienionych wyżej zbieżności fonetycznych dołącza Bernsztejn zbieżności leksykalne bułgarsko-kaszubskie; podobnie czynią Kurkina [Kurkina 1979] oraz Schuster-Šewc [Schuster-Šewc 1988], którzy– opowiadając się za tezą Conewa i Bernsztejna – powołują się na mój artykuł o leksykalnych nawiązaniach kaszubsko-południowosłowiańskich [Popowska-Taborska 1975a
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  26. 1 2 3 4 5 Ioannidou, Alexandra (1999). Questions on the Slavic Dialects of Greek Macedonia. Athens: Peterlang. pp. 56–58. ISBN   9783631350652. Archived from the original on 2023-04-28. Retrieved 2019-01-28. (A) series of etymological and pseudo-linguistic publications ... appeared in Greece ... by "specialists", such as the teachers Giorgos Boukouvalas and Konstantinos Tsioulkas. Boukouvalas published in 1905 in Cairo a brief brochure under the title "The language of the Bulgarophones in Macedonia" (1905). This essay, which assumed the Slav character of the foreign-language idioms of Greek Macedonia by naming them "Bulgarian", included a long list of Slavic words with Greek roots which are used in the dialects. ... Konstantinos Tsioulkas published in 1907 in Athens a book over 350 pages in length to prove the ancient Greek character of the idioms in Greek Macecionia!... : "Contributions to the bilinguism of the Macedonians by comparison of the Slav'-like Macedonian language to Greek" ... Tsioulkas "proved" through a series of "etymological" lists that the inhabitants of Greece's Macedonia spoke a pure Ancient-Greek dialect. ... In 1948 by a third teacher, Giorgos Georgiades, (wrote) under the promising title "The mixed idiom in Macedonia and the ethnological situation of the Macedonians who speak it". Here it is stated that many words from the dialects maintain their "Ancient Greek character". Still, the language itself was presented as a mixture of Greek, Turkish and words borrowed from other languages. As a result, the author found himself incapable of defining it as either Greek or Slav. In examining such publications, one will easily recognise ideological and methodological similarities. One common factor for all the authors is that they ignored not only the dialects they wrote about, but also the Slavic languages entirely. This fact did not hinder them in creating or republishing etymological lists tracing every Slavic word back to Ancient Greek with fictional correlations.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
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