So You want to learn Macedonian...
Well, I want to learn Macedonian too. And inorder to learn Macedonian, I have decided to use the resources I have found to also TEACH Macedonian. The following Lesson is a lesson I have been using to help me to master the Macedonian cyrillic alphabet.
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MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE AND ALPHABET Macedonian, the official language of the Republic of Macedonia, is an Indo-European language from the family of Slavic languages belonging to the South-Slavic group. At the same time, it is a Balkan language. It was proclaimed the official language of the Republic of Macedonia at the First Session of the Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, held on August 2, 1944. The closest relative of Macedonian is Bulgarian. Macedonian Standard is based on the central variants of the western dialects.
Macedonian and Bulgarian share a set of grammatical features which set them apart from other Slavic languages:
— a suffixed definite article that comes after the noun, the adjective or the possessive pronoun (kniga - book; knigata - the book);
— the loss of case forms, except the vocative form in some situations (zemja - land; zemjo moja - you, my land);
— analytic declination - in Macedonian, as in English, prepositions have replaced cases as a way of showing the grammatical relationships between different parts of a sentence (Daj mu ja knigata na deteto! - Give the book to the child!; Knigata za deteto. - The book about the child.);
— three-syllable accent (the accent always falls on the third syllable from the end in words of three syllables or more) and the clear pronunciation of unaccented vowels; (pla-ni-na ; pla-ni-na-ta ; pla-ni-na-ri-te);
— double object (Jas ja sakam nea. - I love her.; Jas go sakam nego. - I love him.);
— constructions with ima / nema - has / hasn't (Imam videno... - I have seen...; Nemam videno... - I have not seen...);
— constructions with sum (to be) + verb-adjective (Ne sum jaden utrovo. - I didn't eat this morning.), etc.
The Macedonian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet. There are 31 sounds in the Macedonian language. In the Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet, there is one symbol for each sound, that is, there are as many letters as sounds (31), making it completely phonetic. Spelling in Macedonian does not present any difficulties since there is one symbol for each sound. Thus, Macedonian is surely one of the easiest languages to learn to read and write.
*All information compliments of Macedonian Language website.*
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