Dianatomia
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Many scholars have concluded that the ancient Macedonian language was not a Greek dialect and that it was more or less related to the languages of Macedonia's northern neighbors, the Illyrians and the Thracians. These scholars include Muller and Mayer, writing in the nineteenth century, and Thumb, Thumb-Kieckers, Vasmer, Kacarov, Beshevljev, Budimir, Pisani, Russu, Baric, Poghirc, Chantraine, Katicic, and Nerosnak, writing in the twentieth. Here attention will be given to sources more readily accessible to those who want to inquire further.
I won't go in it to much detail in historians who may have had second thoughts about the Macedonian language. I am talking about primary evidence.
You are speaking of a Macedonian language not akin to Greek. Would you care showing us a specimen of it? All we have is the names the Macedonians used for themselves, their pets, the place names and and name of their kingdom (all Greek) and the Pella curse tablet (Dorian north-west Greek) uncovered in Macedonia. The latter nailed the coffin on many who may have had some second thoughts before that.
We are talking about a people who have conquered the known world and have left nothing but Greek elements, from Greece to India. I would have expected they had left something of their unique language.
All the rest is secondary and speculative. I would have absolutely nothing against evidence of them speaking a non-Greek language. Find me the evidence and I'll be with you.