Is Macedonian a Slavic Language?

Question

or it have some latin or turkish addings, cause Alexander the Great was Macedonian and for about 2000 Macedonians didn't have their own state. remmember this Macedonia was NEVER greek.

Answer 1

Yes it is...... (Ej bre Makedonche.....pa,valjda to znash)

Answer 2

Modern Macedonian is a Slavic language, in the South Slavic branch of the family along with Bulgarian, Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian. Ancient Macedonian was related to Greek. The Slavs overran the Macedonians after the 6th century AD, but the name switched from referring to the Greek-related Macedonians to the Slavs who now bear the name "Macedonian".

Answer 3

Of course the modern language now known as Macedonian is a Slavic language. It belongs to the sub-family of South Slavian languages and it is related to Serbian, Kroatian, Bosnian and Slovenian.

Answer 4

Basic is Ancient Macedonian, configuration of language Ancient Macedonian. But language in life changed, before 10 years people use different words. So you have Ancient Macedonian, Latin, Slavs, Turkish words but remember basic is Ancient Macedonian. And our neighbors have Macedonian words in own Language, including Greeks, Serbian and others.

Answer 5

Tikva is pumpkin, yet in contrast to in the English language the place calling somebody pumkin would be candy or affectionate in Macedonian it certainly is amazingly slang notice. If somebody calls yet somebody else TIKVA i might say they're telling them they're dumb (thick or an fool, in case you recognize what i propose). call your boyfriend a tikva once you think of he merits it and see how he responds! he would be shocked you recognize while to apply it & will then understand you're onto him.

Answer 6

You don't know what you are talking about Macedonia is GREEK check it out enywhere you want! And also Macedonia is a Greek word ! I have more sources if you want to educate yourself!

Also gained its independence from Yugoslavia on September 8 1991 so don't tell me it's called Macedonia when it's been a country for 15 years!

Answer 7

Of course not my dear FYROM

Alexander The Great WAS Greek of course

read some history books

and Macedonia is a part of Greece

Oh, dont you know that??????????

open a map, will you?

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

yes it is

Answer 10

Let’s take it one at a time!
Your language is called Slavic-Macedonian or Makedonski to distinguish it from the ancient Greek dialect of Macedonia! (Ancient Macedonian was an ancient Greek Doric-dialect! Alexander the Great was from real Macedonia of Greece. Therefore he was Greek from Greek Macedonia. Don’t confuse real Macedonia the Greek province with your Slavic-Macedonia.)
The Slavic-Macedonian language (Македонски, Makedonski) is a language in the Eastern group of South Slavic languages and Slavic-Macedonian is closely related to Standard Bulgarian.
The Slav-Macedonian language belongs to the eastern sub-branch of the South Slavic branch of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European family of languages. The closest relative of Slavic-Macedonian is Bulgarian, spoken in Bulgaria, parts of the Republic of Slavic- Macedonia.
Bulgarian and Slavic-Macedonian properly form a dialect continuum, with the Bulgarian standard being based on the more eastern dialects, and the Slavic-Macedonian standard being based on the more western dialects. Slavic-Macedonian is largely mutually intelligible with both Bulgarian and south-eastern dialects of Serbian, notably the Torlakian dialects, which are also spoken in western Bulgaria.
From a strictly linguistic point of view Slavic-Macedonian can be called a Bulgarian dialect, as structurally it is most similar to Bulgarian. Indeed, Bulgarian scholars reject Slavic-Macedonian as an individual language, but since it now has the status of a literary language most other scholars accept its independent existence
Sample sentences:

Bulgarian: Toj chranese naroda sas slovoto, onzi istinski chljab, kojto ukrepva sarcata, no v sastoto vreme toj ne zabravjase da chrani i telesno onezi, za koito vidja, ce imat nuzda ot takava chrana.

Slavic-Macedonian: Toj go hranese narodot so slovoto, onoj vistinski leb sto gi ukrepuva srcata, no vo isto vreme toj ne zaboravase da gi hrani i telesno onie sto gledase oti imaat nuzda ot takva hrana.

The two sentences render the same original, which may be translated:
'He nourished the people with the word, that real bread which fortifies the heart, but at the same time he did not forget to nourish also with earthly food those who he realized needed such food'

{A literal translation of the Bulgarian: 'He nourished people-the with words-the, that real bread, which fortifies hearts-the, but in same-the time he not forgot that [he] nourishes also physically those, about whom [he] saw, that [they] have need of such food.'
A literal translation of the Macedonian: 'He it nourished people-the with word-the, that real bread that them fortifies hearts-the, but at [the] same time he not forgot that [he] them nourishes also physically those that [he] looked/saw that [they] have need of such food'.}
Also I have to state that the Republic of Makedonija, although it uses as an international name the Greek name “Macedonia”, it has clearly stated that it is not related to Greek Macedonia and Alexander the Great and of course they stated that they are Slavs!
There are few fanatics who post unhistorical ideas and insult the Greeks with questions such the above!
I hope that the Slavic-Macedonia government will manage to stop those fanatic voices!
In order to protect the Slavic-Macedonia government I will post the official statements from the highest authorities!
First of all the first president of FYROM (Slav-Macedonia or Makedonija) in an attempt to isolate the few fanatics (note that not all the Slav-Macedonians share the opinion of the above question) he clearly stated:
“We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century ... we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians" (Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35). Also, on an other occasion, Mr. Gligorov declared in the most official manner: "We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That's who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia… Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" (Toronto Star, March 15, 1992).
But again the Slav-Macedonian government in several occasions declared the fact that they are Slavs and not related to Greek Macedonia and Alexander the Great! On 22 January 1999, Ambassador of the FYROM(Slav-Macedonia or Makedonija) to USA, Ljubica Achevska gave a speech on the present situation in the Balkans. In answering questions at the end of her speech Mrs. Acevshka said: "We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great … Greece is Macedonia’s second largest trading partner, and its number one investor. Instead of opting for war, we have chosen the mediation of the United Nations, with talks on the ambassadorial level under Mr. Vance and Mr. Nemitz." In reply to another question about the ethnic origin of the people of FYROM, Ambassador Achevska stated that "we are Slavs and we speak a Slav language”.
And again on 24 February 1999, in an interview with the Ottawa Citizen, Gyordan Veselinov, FYROM'S Ambassador to Canada, admitted, "We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian." He also commented, “There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country". And again in another occasion a firm statement was made! The Foreign Minister of the FYROM (Slav-Macedonia or Makedonija), Slobodan Casule, in an interview to Utrinski Vesnik of Skopje on December 29, 2001, said that he mentioned to the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Solomon Pasi, that they "belong to the same Slav people.”
(Not that my answer applies only for the Slav-Macedonians since the Albanian Macedonians are of Albanian origin and speak Albanian language!)
I strongly support the effort of the Slav-Macedonian government to isolate the few fanatics who post questions such the above! They certainly compromise and undermine the effort of the Slav-Macedonian government for stability!

Answer 11

Yes it is...