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Ipek K

It is a very interesting and preserved tribe indeed. I remember seeing a documentary about them on National Geographic.

I like the colors of the clothing and the eyes are quite magnificent. It says they are descendants of Alexandre the Great. Since he was Macedonian and maybe it is because the eyes are light colored.

I want some of that bead necklaces :)

*Queen* *Bee* *happy*

Cultures are to be discovered like curtains.You open a curtain
and open another one and open another one.
There're all different as much as the colours,looks and way
of life.
What is the same in all human being is the feeling.
There is no you,me,this or that.When a man is hungry,
that feeling is the same in anyone throughout the world,no
matter where you are.
It's expressed in different words,but
the meaning is always the same.

I believed that groups or a family should keep their culture
like a mirror of their heritage.We should be proud of what
our ancestors created and built.It's like a garden.It displayed
the layouts and each garden has it's own beauty.
A garden has everything in it,it has the power to contain lots of things;
weeds,flowers,dead leafs,birds,rocks,snow,ecc.
And if we have the power to admire it,appreciate and love
we may enjoy it's beauty without the need to altering anything.
It's the culture and it's like a garden,the garden which is still consisting
the beauty that has been shaped and given.

Greetings.

Totally Blunt

Sure, wikipedia has become the playground of political struggle, but we cannot dismiss it out of hand. Besides, wikipedia article sounds more scientific that the citizensugar one.

We also cannot dismiss the fact that conquering armies affect people's culture, even when they are not genetically mixed. The name Hun in Hungary is explained that way. As I havenot come accross a genetical study, I don't know the correctness of it, either.

Whatever the background, it sure is an interesting piece of information. Languages, customs and religions tell the story of a region more than history books. Thanks for sharing.

gugu

It says they are the descendants of Alexander the Great.They have fair skin and blue eyes, could be Macedonians, why not?
I also never heard about them before.

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I didn't know about this.
Some tribes of Indo-European origin also live in south of Afghanistan.

Denicia

Yes, they have many our Macedonians words:mash, tato, tapala, iznos, upalak, kchi, nana, pecka, many, many:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJj5FHosjYw
http://www.shamema.com/kalasha.htm
http://www.makedonskosonce.com/broevis/2005/sonce587.pdf/08_13_intervju.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekhhc6kHdLE

Vasiliki-Î’Î±ÏƒÎ¹Î»Î¹ÎºÎ®

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uld8pPGN5cM&feature=related
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s904069.htm
http://www.creternity.com/article.phtml?articleID=7&page=1&catID=3
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/chitral.htm

These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus
The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan further came to strengthen this opinion.

yeah still hilarious to me,to conclude that because of 3-4 words that look aliki(dont even are the same)-u make two languages similar,
at least(above text) with the Greeks have the same meaning.
but still (Indo-iranian)dardic has nothing to do with Slavic

---In 1896 a British explorer by the name of George Robertson visited the Kalash and did a study on them. He concluded that fifty percent of the Kalash's language derives from Ancient Greek. Such similarities can be found in their gods' names. Zeus is called Zeo, Aphrodite is called Frodait, the name Dionysus has kept the same pronounciation. The Kalash have words such as demos meaning city-state and use the word 'ela' as an imperative command meaning come here. There was recently a tablet found in a village of the Kalash whose message was in the form of hieroglyphics. When the code was deciphered the message read, 'Alexander the Great lives forever' (National Herald, pg.8).

polstad,you ignore the ones that dont do your favour,right???
you keep the epigraph and you ignore the 50% greek origin words????
you ignore that they worship olympian gods????
you ignore the discoveries of the Greek incription???
and the stone wrote Alexander the great lives for ever,not his origin(which as HE said during his life,i am makedon,from Greece)

,,obviously you dont understand what I said,that he is greek is proved for many other reasons,not by rhat ,guy,
The incription just said that alexander(not alexandAR) lives for ever,and NOT his origin......
,how many times,have someone to explain to you,to understand???
My logic is very clear ...but again u stuck to this and not to the real arguments of this......
over

plostad

Jas sum - on Macedonian
a sum - on Burushaski
I'm - on English
Burusha: A-SPALAS, ASPALJ = to kindle, light
Macedonian: SPALE,ZAPALE = to burn,to set in flames.
BU: BERKAT = Berg, Mountain.
MK: BREG= Berg, Mountain.
BU: D*- ASPASAS, D*-SPASASH = to protect, save, rescue.
MK: SPASE = save,DA SPASESH = to save someone.
Brusha:Shaka - hand
Macedonian:Shaka,Raka - hand

So who says that this two languages are not similar? Still hilarious vasiliki?
dear vasiliki, because as you said 3- words are the same that makes the lanuages similar, if all the words were the same, in that case it would be only one language, not 2 similar languages.
Also you said that When the code was deciphered the message read, 'Alexander the Great lives forever', and that only means that they have Macedonian origin, not greeks, bacause Aleksandar the Great was MACEDONIAN, not a greek.
According to your logic, since it was written that Aleksandar will live forever that means that he is Greek? Because greeks live forever? Yes, such a logic you have

bLue

innocence? does it means peace?

greetings_losers

Those are the ones that some (and themselves as well) kept claiming bout direct decendancy to Greeks.
This article negates it scientifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash#Genetic_origins
Tho Seleukos Dynasty was Macedonian as far as I know

Those people have nothing to do with current or Ancient Macedonians or current or Ancient Greeks. They speak an Iranian dialect, theyre polytheistic but their religion is of Iranian decent and tho it has been thousands of years that Indo European languages' common ancestor made way to new languages, there may still be common words, tho very limited. I repeat, neither linguistically nor racially (proven by DNA tests) those people are Greek nor Macedonian. Ancient Macedonians did not speak Slavic in any way btw. Their language is thought to be like Thracians. Distinct from Attican or Dorian Greek but still shared some similarities with Greek. Details and the certainty of this assumption is disputed tho.

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