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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 orthography of the Macedonian language includes an alphabet consisting of 31 letters (Macedonian: Македонска азбука, romanized: Makedonska azbuka), which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.
Macedonian language, a modern South Slavic language spoken by ethnic Macedonians Ancient Macedonian language , an extinct language, related to the ancient Greek language Macedonian dialect, one of the varieties of Modern Greek , spoken in the region of Macedonia in Greece
Macedonian onomastics (Macedonian: Македонска ономастика, romanized: makedonska onomastika) is a part of Macedonian studies, which studies the names, surnames and nicknames of the Macedonian language and people. This is relatively new linguistic discipline.
Macedonian authors tend to treat all dialects spoken in the geographical region of Macedonia as Macedonian, including those spoken in the westernmost part of Bulgaria (so-called Pirin Macedonia), whereas Bulgarian authors treat all Macedonian dialects as part of the Bulgarian language.