Language

The Greek government officially recognized for the first time the separate national entity of the Macedonians within Greece’s borders.

These were, that the Macedonian dialect was closest to that language which had been created by Cyril and Methodius and their disciples Clement, Naum and others. But, as we have seen, the Bulgarian philologists and politicians were unfavorably disposed towards this dialect terming it “defiled Bulgarian or Serbian”.

At times I get the impression that the “Macedonian Question” in politics is a similar case to that of legasthenia in pedagogy – you have to go into it very closely to realize that it does not exist.

The Macedonian language was proclaimed the official language of the Republic of Macedonia during the war, at the First Session of the Antifascist Assembly of ‘the National Liberation of Macedonia, held on August 2, 1944, in the Monastery of St. Prohor of Pchinja

Bulgarian and Greek propagandists insist that Macedonian is not a language, that it is only a western Bulgarian dialect, despite the fact that Macedonian is an internationally recognized language and taught at several prestigious universities throughout the world.

In this work the Macedonian Renaissance is viewed from one particular aspect – that of the appearance of Macedonian text-books in the course of the last century.

The Macedonian Language in various books and texts.