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Macedonian Language

Macedonian dialects, Macedonian alphabet, Macedonian orthography, Macedonian language history and sources

Macedonian language

Macedonian: Official language of the Republic of Macedonia.

Number of Macedonian Speakers: Two million.

Macedonian Speakers: Over 200,000 Macedonian speakers in Greece, also in Republic of Serbia, Albania, and Bulgaria.

Language Classification: Slavic language family and a branch of Indo-European language.

Macedonian Dialects: Eastern, Western, and Northern dialects.

Macedonian Alphabet: Modified Cyrillic. Five short vowels and 28 consonants.

Macedonian Orthography: Subject-verb-object order in sentences.

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Macedonian Language History: It goes back to the sixth century and became the official language in 1944.

Macedonian Language Enriched by: Greek and Turkish languages.

Macedonian Standardization Efforts: 1950's.

Unique Features of Macedonian: Macedonia was under Turkish and later Bulgarian control which in turn affected the literature.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Macedonian language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Macedonian.

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