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This article is about the modern South Slavic language. For the extinct Hellenic language, see Ancient Macedonian language. ‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Macedonian македонски makedonski Pronunciation [maˈkɛdɔnski] Native to North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia Region Balkans Ethnicity Macedonians Native speakers 1.6 ...
Linguistic map of North Macedonia, 2002 census. The official language of North Macedonia is Macedonian, while Albanian has co-official status. Macedonian is spoken by roughly two-thirds of the population natively, and as a second language by much of the rest of the population.
Map of the phoneme kj in the wider Macedonian region Map of the phoneme gj in the wider Macedonian region As far as consonantal features are concerned, the entire Western region is distinguished from the East by loss of /x/ (except Tetovo , Gora and Korča ) and the loss of /v/ in the intervocalic position (except Mala Reka and parts of Kostur ...
Linguistic map of North Macedonia, 2002 census. The national and official language in all aspects of the whole territory of North Macedonia and in its international relations is the Macedonian language. Since 2019 Albanian is co-official at a state level (excluding defense, central police and monetary policy). [245]
The ethnic Macedonians in Greece have faced difficulties from the Greek government in their ability to self-declare as members of a "Macedonian minority" and to refer to their native language as "Macedonian". [261] Since the late 1980s there has been an ethnic Macedonian revival in Northern Greece, mostly centering on the region of Florina. [264]
The Macedonian language has been subject to different views in Bulgaria through history. Its existence as a minority language was recognized in Communist Bulgaria shortly following World War II. [26] [27] [28] This led to its declaration as official in the region of Pirin Macedonia in 1947, which also included the publishing of newspapers and ...
In Macedonian, the perfect is largely based on the verb "to have" (as in other Balkan languages like Greek and Albanian, and in English), as opposed to the verb "to be", which is used as the auxiliary in all other Slavic languages (see also Macedonian verbs): [citation needed] Macedonian – imam videno – I have seen (imam – "to have")
Standard Macedonian or literary Macedonian [1] (Macedonian: книжевен македонски јазик or македонски литературен јазик) [2] is the standard variety of the Macedonian language and the official language of North Macedonia used in writing, in formal contexts, and for communication between different dialect areas.