Brian Joseph har oppsummert at «[t]he slender evidence is open to different interpretations, so that no definitive answer is really possible», but cautions that "most likely, Ancient Macedonian was not simply an Ancient Greek dialect on a par with Attic or Aeolic" (Joseph, B. (2001): «Ancient Greek» i: Garry, J. et al. (red.): Facts about the world's major languages: an encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present.Publikasjon onlineArkivert 1. oktober 2016 hos Wayback Machine.) I denne betydning kaller en del forfattere det for en avvikende gresk dialekt: «deviant Greek dialect».
Hamp, Eric; Birnbaum, Henrik; Puhvel, Jaan, red. (25.–27. april 1963): The position of Albanian, Ancient IE dialects, Proceedings of the Conference on IE linguistics held at the University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Joseph har oppsummert at «[t]he slender evidence is open to different interpretations, so that no definitive answer is really possible», but cautions that "most likely, Ancient Macedonian was not simply an Ancient Greek dialect on a par with Attic or Aeolic" (Joseph, B. (2001): «Ancient Greek» i: Garry, J. et al. (red.): Facts about the world's major languages: an encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present.Publikasjon onlineArkivert 1. oktober 2016 hos Wayback Machine.) I denne betydning kaller en del forfattere det for en avvikende gresk dialekt: «deviant Greek dialect».
