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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.
There is a historical controversy surrounding a Greek minority within North Macedonia, that stems from the late 19th and early 20th century Ottoman era statistical treatment of Aromanian and Slavic-speaking population groups in the area, which partially used to identify themselves as Greeks as part of the Rum millet. [7]
With the exception of several Turkic languages, all of them belong to the Indo-European family. Despite belonging to four different families of Indo-European; Slavic, Romance, Greek, and Albanian, a subset of these languages is notable for forming a well-studied sprachbund , a group of languages that have developed some striking structural ...
The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Greek: Ομογένεια, romanized: Omogéneia), [1] [2] are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus.. Such places historically (dating to the ancient period) include, Albania, North Macedonia, southern Russia, Ukraine, Asia Minor and Pontus (in today's Turkey), Georgia, Egypt, Sudan, southern Italy (the so-called "Magna ...
Distribution of Macedonian speakers in regions of Australia in 2011. It is the second country after North Macedonia with the largest number of native speakers. Macedonian has had a long history in Australia, from the pečalbari/seasonal workers to the mass migrations of ethnic Macedonians from Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia.
Pan-Macedonian Association USA, founded in 1947 in New York City by Greek Americans whose origins were from Macedonia to unite all the Macedonian communities of the United States, works to collect and distribute information on the land and people of Macedonia, organize lectures, scientific discussions, art exhibitions, educational and ...
Albanian is spoken in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, Serbia, Croatia and Italy (particularly by the Arbëreshë people in southern Italy). Maltese is a Semitic language that is the official language of Malta, descended from Siculo-Arabic, but written in the Latin script with heavy Latin and Italian influences.
2009 topographic map of the Prespa region. Prespa (Macedonian: Преспа, Greek: Πρέσπα) is a region shared between North Macedonia, Greece and Albania. [1] It shares the same name with the two Prespa lakes which are situated in the middle of the region. The largest town is Resen in North Macedonia with 9,000 inhabitants.