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Macedonian is a southern Slavic language with about 3 million speakers in the Republic of Macedonia (Република Македонија), Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, the USA, Canada and Australia. Macedonian became the official language of the Republic of Macedonia in 1944.
From the end of the 16th century vernacular Macedonian began to appear in writing, though a modern standard written version of Macedonian only appeared in 1945. Since then many literary works have been published in Macedonian. Literary Macedonian is based on the dialects of the West Central region (Prilep, Kičevo, Bitola, Kruševo and Lerin).
Note: The Republic of Macedonia is called "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (FYROM): Поранешна Југословенска Република Македонија (ПЈРМ) by Greece, the United Nations and a few other organisations. The Greek version of the name is πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβική Δημοκρατία της Μακεδονίας (π.Γ.Δ.Μ.).
This is method of writing Macedonian with the Latin alphabet was devised by Nikolče Stojanoski.
Ситe чoвeчки суштeствa сe рaѓaaт слoбoдни и eднaкви пo дoстoинствo и прaвa. Tиe сe oбдaрeни сo рaзум и сoвeст и трeбa дa сe oднeсувaaт eдeн кoн друг вo дуxoт нa oпштo чoвeчкaтa припaднoст.
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Site čovečki suštestva se ragjaat slobodni i ednakvi po dostoinstvo i prava. Tie se obdareni so razum i sovest i treba da se odnesuvaat eden kon drug vo duhot na opšto čovečkata pripadnost.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another
in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Longer sample text (Tower of Babel)
Macedonian language courses, dictionaries, etc.
An introduction to the modern Macedonian language
http://www.makedonija.info/language.html
The Macedonian alphabet with sound files
http://macedoniadirect.com/azbuka.htm
Macedonian transliteration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanisation_of_Macedonian
Online Macedonian lessons
http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/macedonian/
Online Macedonian dictionary
http://www.idividi.com.mk/recnik/
Find a Macedonian language exchange partner
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Macedonian.asp
Online Macedonian radio and news
http://www.makdenes.org
Information about the Republic of Macedonia
http://www.mymacedonia.net
http://www.cybermacedonia.com
http://www.macedonia.co.uk/mcic/
Information about Ancient Macedonia
http://www.unet.com.mk/ancient-macedonians/
http://www.ancientmacedonia.com
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Other languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet
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