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The letters of the Macedonian alphabet. The word Македонија ("Macedonia") in Macedonian, written in cursive script. The above table contains the printed form of the Macedonian alphabet; the cursive script is significantly different, and is illustrated below in lower and upper case (letter order and layout below corresponds to table above).
The Macedonian language developed during the Middle Ages from the Old Church Slavonic, the common language spoken by Slavic people. [further explanation needed] In 1903 Krste Petkov Misirkov was the first to argue for the codification of a standard literary Macedonian language in his book Za makedonckite raboti (On Macedonian Matters).
This article is about the modern South Slavic language. For the extinct Hellenic language, see Ancient Macedonian language. Macedonian македонски makedonski Pronunciation [maˈkɛdɔnski] Native to North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia Region Balkans Ethnicity Macedonians Native speakers 1.6-2 million (2022) Language family Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic ...
Macedonian μάγειρος mágeiros ('butcher') was a loan from Doric into Attic. Vittore Pisani has suggested an ultimately Macedonian origin for the word, which could then be cognate to μάχαιρα mákhaira ('knife', < PIE *mag h-, 'to fight') [31]
On that day in 1945, the government of Yugoslav Macedonia adopted the Macedonian alphabet as the official script of the republic. Two months later, on 7 June, the Ministry of Education approved the first orthography and thus codified the Macedonian language. [1] The date was declared Macedonian Language Day at a government session held on 16 ...
Jas I сум sum am ја ja it (clitic) прочитал pročital read книгата. knigata. book-the Јаc сум ја прочитал книгата. Jas sum ja pročital knigata. I am {it (clitic)} read book-the "I have read the book" Macedonian developed an alternative form of the sum-perfect, which is formed with the auxiliary verb 'to have' and a verbal adjective in neutral, instead ...
ѕ is now only used in the Macedonian alphabet. A commission formed to standardise the Macedonian language and orthography decided to adopt the letter on December 4, 1944, after a vote of 10-1. Despite the letter originally being found between ж and з , in the new alphabet it was placed after з instead.
The Macedonian language, written using its Cyrillic alphabet, is the official language throughout the Republic of North Macedonia and in the international relations of the Republic of North Macedonia. Any other language spoken by at least 20 percent of the population is also an official language, written using its alphabet, as specified below.