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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 ˈjazik] ⓘ 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The word stress in Macedonian is antepenultimate, meaning it falls on the third from last syllable in words with three or more syllables, and on the first or only syllable in other words. This is sometimes disregarded when the word has entered the language more recently or from a foreign source.
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]
Macedonian toponyms and hydronyms are mostly of Greek origin (e.g. Aegae, Dion, Pieria, Haliacmon), as are the names of the months of the Macedonian calendar and the names of most of the deities the Macedonians worshiped.