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Preferred term

xmkAncient Macedonian  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Ancient Macedonian was the language of the ancient Macedonians. It was spoken in the kingdom of Macedon during the 1st millennium BCE and it belongs to the Indo-European group of languages. It gradually fell out of use during the 4th century BCE, marginalized by Koine Greek, the lingua franca of the Hellenistic period.

Entry terms

  • Ancient Macedonian language
  • Macedonian, Ancient

ISO 639-3 code

  • xmk

In other languages

  • Antic macedoni

    Catalan

  • Macedonisch

    Dutch

  • Ancien macédonien

    French

  • Lingua macedonia antiga

    Galician

  • Makedonische Sprache

    German

  • Αρχαία μακεδονική γλώσσα

    Greek

  • מקדונית עתיקה

    Hebrew

  • Lingua antico macedone

    Italian

  • Lingua Macedonica antiqua

    Latin

  • Старомакедонски јазик

    Macedonian

  • Język macedoński

    Polish

  • Língua macedônia antiga

    Portuguese

  • Древнемакедонский язык

    Russian

  • Antiguo idioma macedonio

    Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Давньомакедонська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xmk

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