Macedonian

E72109

Macedonian is a South Slavic language primarily spoken in North Macedonia and recognized as the country's official language.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Macedonian canonical 15
Macedonian language 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
South Slavic language
standardized language
closelyRelatedTo Bulgarian
Serbian
hasCaseSystem reduced case system
hasDialects Eastern Macedonian dialects
Western Macedonian dialects
hasFeature analytic verb forms
loss of noun cases
postposed definite article
three-way definite article distinction
hasGlagoliticTradition no
hasISO639-1Code mk
hasISO639-2Code mac
mkd
hasISO639-3Code mkd
languageFamily Balto-Slavic languages
Indo-European languages
Slavic languages
South Slavic languages
officialLanguageOf North Macedonia
primaryCountry North Macedonia
primaryScript Macedonian Cyrillic
regulatedBy Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
spokenIn Albania
Australia
Austria
Bulgaria
Canada
Germany
Greece
Italy
North Macedonia
Serbia
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
standardizationYear 1945
standardizedIn mid-20th century
subclassOf Eastern South Slavic language
Slavic language
usedAsMinorityLanguageIn Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Romania
Serbia
usesAlphabet Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Referenced by (22)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Slavic languages includeLanguage Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian
North Macedonia officialLanguage Macedonian
Skopje officialLanguage Macedonian
Bulgarian language closelyRelatedTo Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian
Balkan Sprachbund hasMemberLanguage Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian
Common Slavic ancestorOf Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian
Macedonians autonymLanguage Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian
Monastir language Macedonian
Proto-Balto-Slavic language hasDescendant Macedonian language
linked to: Macedonian
Debar officialLanguage Macedonian
Kumanovo languageUsed Macedonian
Georgi languageOfUse Macedonian
Struga hasLanguage Macedonian