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My point is that both Vlachs and Sarakatsani are indigenous to the region. They have an uninterrupted presence in the region since ancient times.Originally Posted by Twitch
"The Sarakatsanic dialect has a lot of archaic components. Maybe it is not a completely Doric dialect but it has for sure, components that indict to pre-Dorian or pre-Aeolic dialects. Some verbs used (such as "namo" "νάμω" = give, which in all modern Greek dialects is "nemo" "νέμω") have archaic forms and also some endings in the verbs. Words as "tata" "τατά", = father can only be found in Illiad!"
The Sarakatsani in Greece are the main Sarakatsani group of Balkans. Here is what Sarakatsani say:
"All of us, the Sarakatsani, whether in our homeland (Greece) or elsewhere are Greek (both by ancestry, language or any other "metric" of Greekness) and identify as Greek. Including the Sarakatsani of Bulgaria. The Bulgarian government though, since the cold war has been trying to categorise the Sarakatsani as a separate identity.
Our kin (συνάφι) frοm Bulgaria are invited and attend our yearly gatherings (ανταμώματα) in Greece which are the greatest celebration of Greekness that can be and are often attended by Greek Presidents as well. Why would we be inviting people who would have turned their back on their Greek identity? Why would these people come all the way from Bulgaria to attend either?
Likewise, Σαρακατσάνοι from Greece go in Bulgaria to attend similar festivities. Would they consider themselves so dear to people denying their Greekness? No, they would want nothing to do with them.
Is how the Bulgarian census holder interprets (i.e. twists) their reply in the census, evidence that my kin in Bulgaria do not identify as Greeks? Can anyone, at last, come up with something about us that is un-greek?
Greeks, are clearly of not greek origin according to the self-identified "bosses" of wikipedia (e.g. Arvanites are Albanians because they speak Arvanitika. They say Vlachs have not greek origin because they speak aromanian, but in this case, Sarakatsani who always spoke only greek are Greek-speaking, not Greeks. So, if you speak Greek and Arvanitika you originate from Albanians while if you speak only Sarakatsanika Greek you are a Greek-speaking of unknown origin"
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