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Glottolog. None. Ancient Macedonian was the language of the ancient Macedonians which was either a dialect of Ancient Greek or a separate Hellenic language. It was spoken in the kingdom of Macedonia during the 1st millennium BC and belonged to the Indo-European language family.
The Macedonian alphabet was standardized in 1945 by a committee formed in Yugoslav Macedonia after the Partisans took power at the end of World War II. The alphabet used the same phonemic principles employed by Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864) and Krste Misirkov (1874–1926). Before standardization, the language had been written in a variety of ...
Ancient Macedonian, then Attic Greek, and later Koine Greek. Religion. ancient Greek religion. The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient Greek tribe [ 1 ] that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.
t. e. The history of the Macedonian language refers to the developmental periods of current-day Macedonian, an Eastern South Slavic language spoken on the territory of North Macedonia. The Macedonian language developed during the Middle Ages from the Old Church Slavonic, the common language spoken by Slavic people. [further explanation needed]
Ptolemaic Kingdom. Attalid kingdom. Macedonia province. Macedonia (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (/ ˈmæsɪdɒn / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [ 6 ] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [ 7 ]
Macedonian (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniən / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ən; македонски јазик, translit. makedonski jazik, pronounced [maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik] ⓘ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch.
This article discusses the phonological system of Standard Macedonian (unless otherwise noted) based on the Prilep-Bitola dialect. For discussion of other dialects, see Macedonian dialects. Macedonian possesses five vowels, one semivowel, three liquid consonants, three nasal stops, three pairs of fricatives, two pairs of affricates, a non ...
The Kingdom of Macedonia (in dark orange) in c. 336 BC, at the end of the reign of Philip II of Macedon; other territories include Macedonian dependent states (light orange), the Molossians of Epirus (light red), Thessaly (desert sand color), the allied League of Corinth (yellow), neutral states of Sparta and Crete, and the western territories of the Achaemenid Empire in Anatolia (violet purple).