Greek speaking town in India

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Greek speaking town in India

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does anyone know the name of the town in india (or maybe pakistan) where greek is still spoken today?
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Greek is spoken in Greece and not India or Pakastan.
The Greek written word or the language related to it died out a long time ago and isn't used anymore in the area. Just a few indo-europeanistic similarities remain.
If you look at the word list below (I hope it worked out ok) you will see that the language of not just a town, but the dialects of a whole area resembles Macedonian and not only in numerics but in lots of other words as well.
English Kalasha Khowar Nuristani Hindi-Urdu Pashtu Macedonian
one ek i ew ek yao eden
two du ju dui do dwa dva
three tre troi tere tin dre &nb
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I confused before sending my message "as you can see" above and not direct to you :o)

http://mani.org.gr/images/kalas/kalas10.jpg
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English Kalasha Khowar Nuristani Hindi-Urdu Pashtu Macedonianone ek i ew ek yao edentwo du ju dui do dwa dvathree tre troi tere tin dre trifour chao Chor shtewo char salor chetirifive poin poch puch pach pinza petsix sho Chhoi shu che shpag shestseven sat sot suth sat uwe sedumeight asht usht ushth ath
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What are you out of your mind? Segments of India and Pakistan speaking "Macedonian"? Today's so-called "Macedonian" is a Bulgarian dialect. How in the world would these people speak Bulgarian?PS. Please don't tell me "it's not Bulgarian". How else can you explain the fact that a native Bulgarian can easily understand "Macedonian"?
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Idiot!
The death of P.Melas.
The Bishop Germanos Karavangelis book, "the Macedonian struggle"Melas went to the village of Statica. Mitre Vlasheto,born in Konomladi, the worst enemy of the greeks (a Vlah,a Macedonian komitaji like Delchev) was informed about that, so he started thinking of a plan how to get rid of him. He wrote a letter to the turkish authorities,where he "informs" them, that the "horrible bandit Mitre Vlasheto is in the village of Statitsa at the moment",so he asks the authorities to kill or capture the wanted komitaji. The turkish forces immediatlly responded by surrounding the house where they were informed that Mitre was hidding.Melas heard some strange noises,he opened the door with a gun in his hand to see what's happening outside.The turkish soldiers opened a fire and Melas was dead before understanding what is happening.No battle at all. After that Karavangelis sent his man to take the body,but he couldn't so he took only the head. The body was taken by the Turks who were showing it around,proud that they've killed "Mitre the Vlah".Karavangelis had a lot and lot of trouble until he succeseded to take the body from the Turks and merge it with the head at last,once the head was burried already alone before that,somewhere else.
Pavlos Melas, who had spent only two weeks in Macedonia was a leutenant in the greek army, born in Marselliess, France his roots were from northern Epirus and had no business in Macedonia.
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Again, what does that have to do with Bulgarian dialects in the India/Pakistan regions?Or are these people really Slavs and just don't know it?
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It's to do with Indo-European roots, nothing to do with a modern Bulgarian dialect being spoken in India or Pakistan. Even if the 'Macedonian' that Alexander spoke wasn't exactly 'Greek', it certainly wasn't 'a Bulgarian dialect'. We should not get confused with 'Macedonian' as it relates to the 4th century BC and as it relates to the 20th or 21st century.
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Well put Marcus...as always.Regards,'Pavlos'
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Thank you, Pavlos... I try <g>
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MACEDONIAN ARE GREEKS!
PEOPLE TODAY CALLED MACEDONIANS ARE SLAVES!
REAL MACEDONIA IS NORTHEN GREECE!
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YOU MUST KNOW THAT THE STAY TODAY CALLED MACEDONIA HAS NO RELATIONSHIP WITH REAL MACEDONIA AND THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN HERE ISN'T MACEDONIAN BUT SLAVIAN SUCH AS THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE. BUT SLAVES ARE KNOWN AFTER THE 9TH CENTURY A.C. MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE IS A GREEK ONE , STILL SPOKEN IN PELLA, THE TOWN WHERE ALEXANDROS WAS BORN!
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YOU MUST KNOW THAT THE STATE TODAY CALLED MACEDONIA HAS NO RELATIONSHIP WITH REAL MACEDONIA AND THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN HERE ISN'T MACEDONIAN BUT SLAVIAN SUCH AS THE BULGARIAN LANGUAGE. BUT SLAVES ARE KNOWN AFTER THE 9TH CENTURY A.C. MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE IS A GREEK ONE , STILL SPOKEN IN PELLA, THE TOWN WHERE ALEXANDROS WAS BORN!
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