The population of the Republic of Macedonia was 2,022,547 in 2002, with 1,644,815 speaking Macedonian as their mother tongue. Outside the Republic, there are Macedonians living in other parts of the geographical area of Macedonia. There are ethnic Macedonian minority in Albania near, Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia. According to the official Albanian census of 1989, 4.697 ethnic Macedonians living in Albania.
A large number of Macedonians live outside the traditional Balkan Macedonian region, with Australia, Canada and the United States have the largest immigrant communities. According to an estimate of 1964, approximately 580,000 Macedonians living outside the republic Macedonian, almost 30% of the total population. The Macedonian spoken by communities outside the republic predates the standardization of language and considers the many dialectic though, changes in general, mutually intelligible.
The Macedonian language has the status of official language only in the Republic of Macedonia and is a recognized minority and an official language in parts of Albania (The City of Pustec), Romania and Serbia (Municipalities of Jabuka and Plandište). There are conditions for learning the Macedonian language in Romania as Macedonians are an officially recognized minority group. The language is taught in some universities in Australia, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Russia, Serbia, the United States and the United Kingdom among other countries.
Macedonian language in Greece.
The varieties spoken by the minority of Slavophone in parts of northern Greece, particularly those in the Greek provinces of West and Central Macedonia, are now usually classified as part of the Macedonian language, with those in East Macedonia being transitional towards Bulgarian. Bulgarian linguistics traditionally regards them all as part of diasystem Bulgarian along with the rest of the Macedonian. However, the codification of standard Macedonian has been in effect only in the Republic of Macedonia, and the Slavic dialects spoken in Greece are so "practically homeless", with their speakers who have little access to standard or written Macedonian.
The majority of the speakers of the language in Greece choose not to identify themselves ethnically as "Macedonians", but as ethnic Greeks (the Greek Slavophone) or dopii (locals). Therefore, the simple term "Macedonian" as a name for the Slavic language is often avoided in the context greek, and vehemently rejected by most Greeks, for whom Macedonian has very different connotations. Instead, the language is often called simply "Slavic" or "Slavomacedonian", with the "Macedonian Slavic" often used in English. Speakers themselves variously refer to their language as Makedonski, makedoniski ("Macedonian"), Slavika ("Slavic"), or Dopia entópia ("local / indigenous [language]"), balgàrtzki, bolgàrtski or bulgàrtski in Kostur region, bògartski ("Bulgarian") in Dolna thermal performance along with noses ("our") and the stariski ("old").
The exact number of speakers in Greece is difficult to ascertain, with estimates ranging between 20,000 and 250,000. Jacques Bacid currency in his 1983 book that "over 200,000 Macedonian speakers remained in Greece." Other sources put the number of speakers at 180,000, 220,000 and 250,000, while Yugoslav sources vary, some who estimated the number of "Macedonians in Greek Macedonia" to 150.000 to 200.000 to 300.000 and others. The Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to World Player of the Compendium of both put the figure of ethnic Macedonians in Greece at 1.8% or people c.200, 000, with the mother tongue brutally corresponding with the figures. The UCLA also states that there are 200,000 Macedonian speakers in Greece. A 2008 article in the journal Eleftherotipia greek puts the estimate at 20,000.
The largest group of speakers is concentrated in Florina, Kastoria, Edessa, Giannitsa Ptolemaida and regions of Naousa. During the Greek Civil War, the codified Macedonian language was taught in 87 schools with 10,000 students in areas of northern Greece under the control of forces led by the Communists, until their defeat Army National in 1949. In recent years, there have been attempts to recognize the language as a minority language.
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