Macedonian language

The Macedonian was defined as a literary language recently, August 2, 1944, a meeting of the National Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) in the monastery of St. Prohor Pčinsky, where Macedonia formally joined the Yugoslav federation as a people independent with an official language of their own. Since then, great progress has been made in the development of a standard literary Macedonian, and in its recognition both within the country and outside as it is a different language from the Serbian by the Bulgarian. The first grammar was published by Krume Kepeski in 1946. A detailed grammar in two volumes was published by Blaze Koneski in 1952 (Volume I) and 1954 (Volume II), while the first Macedonian grammar of a foreign scholar was published by the American scholar Horace Lunt in 1952. There is abundant literature in Macedonian, in all fields, while in the field of linguistics have been published in a comprehensive dictionary of the Macedonian language and many bilingual dictionaries. A large number of works, from classical literature to contemporary, several authors have been translated into Macedonian. Today the Macedonian is used in government, public communications, in the literary works, schools, newspapers, radio and television, and is also spoken in many foreign universities. It 'recognized as a distinct language from various international authorities, such as the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia of Language, Cambridge.

The Macedonian literary standard is based on variations of the central western dialect, west of the river Vardar, though it stretches the Eastern dialect, east of the Vardar. Belongs to the group of South Slavic languages ​​and is one of southern Balkan languages.

 "The Macedonian language is a group of Slavic dialects located in the southern part of the Slavic linguistic territory that, until the twentieth century, stretches down to the river Detangles (Vistrizza) on the border of Thessaly in Greece. The Macedonian dialects were in close contact with the 51 currently extinct dialects of Albania and Greece, and therefore the material provided by the names in those countries is the most useful to explain some problems in phonology ancient Macedonian. We also have sufficient evidence to prove that the direct contact between the western Macedonian and Montenegrin dialects of Croatian Serbs in Albanian territory was not interrupted in the period of Ottoman rule, as is attested by the numerous innovations common in the western Macedonian and Montenegrin dialects that we take start only during the turkish "(Blaze Koneski, A Historical Phonology of the Macedonian Language, 2001, 177).