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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

Notation

  • xmk

In other languages

  • Ancien macédonien

    French

  • Makedonische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua antico macedone

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Antiguo idioma macedonio

    Spanish

URI

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

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