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Macedonian language in Greece has a stable future!
Professor of South Slavic languages Christian Fos in an interview with Deutsche Welle provides an optimistic future for the Macedonian language in Greece: Macedonian youth reappears interest in their mother tongue.
Today the Slavic dialects spoken in Greece are spoken in greater part of the country, from Kostur in the western part of Greece, to the Kavala area in the eastern part of the country.
This is the area that today is called Greek Macedonia. Here live some 200,000 people with Slavic origin, but only a small proportion of these people speak the Macedonian language as mother tongue, "said for Deutsche Welle the professor of South Slavic languages and cultural studies at the University HUMBOLDT in Berlin Christian Fos:
"In past centuries, specifically from 1913, when these areas were integrated into the Greek state, was also carried out a more or less repressive assimilation. Merging of the population lead to the parents to talk with their children only in Greek. For most of those Macedonians their language in Greece since at that time became extinct. "
Today the Slavic dialects spoken in Greece are spoken in greater part of the country, from Kostur in the western part of Greece, to the Kavala area in the eastern part of the country.
This is the area that today is called Greek Macedonia. Here live some 200,000 people with Slavic origin, but only a small proportion of these people speak the Macedonian language as mother tongue, "said for Deutsche Welle the professor of South Slavic languages and cultural studies at the University HUMBOLDT in Berlin Christian Fos:
"In past centuries, specifically from 1913, when these areas were integrated into the Greek state, was also carried out a more or less repressive assimilation. Merging of the population lead to the parents to talk with their children only in Greek. For most of those Macedonians their language in Greece since at that time became extinct. "
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