Bahasa Macedonia

Bahasa Macedonia (, makedonski jazik, ) merupakan bahasa rasmi Macedonia Utara, dan sebahagian daripada kumpulan Timur di kalangan bahasa-bahasa Slavik Selatan. terdapat juga pelbagai nama alternatif, banyak yang mempunyai perkataan Slavik. Bahasa ini adalah rapat dan saling bersefahaman dengan Bahasa Bulgaria piawai. Terdapat juga beberapa kesamaan dengan Bahasa Serbia piawai dan loghat Torlakia serta loghat Shop yang dituturkan paling banyak di selatan Serbia, barat Bulgaria, dan di utara dan timur Macedonia.

Kedua-dua Bahasa Macedonia dan Bahasa Bulgaria Piawai berkongsi persamaan tipologi dengan Bahasa Romania, Bahasa Yunani, dan Bahasa Albania. Kesemua bahasa ini adalah dalam sprachbund Balkan, walaupun ketiga-tiga yang terakhir adalah dalam kumpulan yang berbeza (Bahasa Romania ialah sebuah Bahasa Romawi, manakala Bahasa Yunani dan Bahasa Albania adalah bersendirian masing-masing di bawah keluarga Bahasa Indo-Eropah). 



Nama-nama alternatif

Bulgaria 
Dalam kebanyakan sumber sebelum Perang Dunia Kedua, loghat yang terkandung dalam Bahasa Macedonia moden dirujuk sebagai loghat Bahasa Bulgaria. Ini adalah berdasarkan fakta bahawa sehingga Perang Dunia Kedua, kontinum loghat Slavonik selatan yang meliputi kawasan yang kini Macedonia Utara dirujuk sebagai Bahasa Bulgaria oleh orang termasuk penuturnya. Selepas Peperangan persoalan tentang "bahasa Macedonia" ini dilupakan dengan nama persahabatan antara Bulgaria dengan Yugoslavia di bawah tekanan Kesatuan Soviet.

Lihat juga 

 Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache
 Kesatuan linguistik Balkan
 Bahasa Bulgaria
 Huruf Bahasa Macedonia
 Perumian Bahasa Macedonia
 Bahasa Slavik (Yunani)
 Sociolinguistik
 Loghat Torlakia

Catatan 

  Although the precise number of speakers is unknown, figures of between 1.6 million  and 2-2.5 million have been cited, see Topolinjska (1998) and Friedman (1985). The general academic consensus is that there are approximately 2 million speakers of the Macedonian language, accepting that "it is difficult to determine the total number of speakers of Macedonian due to the official policies of the neighbouring Balkan states and the fluid nature of emigration" (Friedman 1985).
  Hill, P. (1999) "Macedonians in Greece and Albania: A comparative study of recent developments". Nationalities Papers. 27(1)
  
  
   
  
  
  
  Popis na Naselenie, Domaćinstva i Stanovi vo Republika Makedonija, 2002 - Vkupno naselenie na Republika Makedonija spored majčin jazik.
  Преброяване 2001 - Окончателни резултати - Население към 01.03.2001 г. по области и етническа група
  Greek Helsinki Monitor - Report about Compliance with the Principles of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities 
  Topolinjska, Z. (1998). "In place of a foreword: facts about the Republic of Macedonia and the Macedonian language" in International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Issue 131. pp. 1-11
  Bernard Comrie and Greville G. Corbett. (2002) The Slavonic Languages (p. 247. The Macedonian Language) (New York: Routledge Publications)
  Стойков, С. (2002) Българска диалектология, 4-то издание. стр. 143, 186. Also available online.
  ibid. стр. 140, 143.
  Lunt, H. (1952) Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language p. 1
  Стойков, С. (2002) Българска диалектология, 4-то издание. стр. 127. Also available online.
  Friedman, V. (2001) Macedonian (SEELRC), p.17.
  Friedman, V. (2001) Macedonian (SEELRC), p.40.
  Christina E. Kramer (1999), Makedonski Jazik (The University of Wisconsin Press);
  Tomić, O. (2003) "Genesis of the Balkan Slavic Future Tenses" in Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The Ottawa Meeting 2003 (Michigan : Michigan Slavic Publications)
  Friedman, V. (1998) "The implementation of standard Macedonian: problems and results" in International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Issue 131. pp. 31-57
  Lunt, H. (1953) "A Survey of Macedonian Literature" in Harvard Slavic Studies, Vol. 1, pp. 363-396
  Seriot, P. (1997) "Faut-il que les langues aient un nom? Le cas du macédonien", in Andrée Tabouret-Keller (éd.) Le nom des langues. L'enjeu de la nomination des langues, Vol. 1, pp. 167-190 (Louvain : Peeters) (in French)
  Encyclopaedia Britannica - Old Church Slavonic
  Mahon, M. (1998) "The Macedonian question in Bulgaria" in Nations and Nationalism Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 389-407
  Friedman, V. (1998) "The implementation of standard Macedonian: problems and results" in International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Issue 131. pp. 31-57
  Trudgill, P. (1992) "Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in contemporary Europe" in International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 167-177
  Although acceptable in the past, current use of this name in reference to both the ethnic group and the language can be considered pejorative and offensive by ethnic Macedonians. In the past, the Macedonian Slavs in Greece seemed relieved to be acknowledged as "Slavomacedonians". A native of Greek Macedonia, a pioneer of ethnic Macedonian schools in the region and local historian, Pavlos Koufis, says in Laografika Florinas kai Kastorias (Folklore of Florina and Kastoria), Athens 1996, that, “[During its Panhellenic Meeting in September 1942, the KKE mentioned that it recognises the equality of the ethnic minorities in Greece] the KKE recognised that the Slavophone population was ethnic minority of Slavomacedonians]. This was a term, which the inhabitants of the region accepted with relief. [Because] Slavomacedonians = Slavs+Macedonians. The first section of the term determined their origin and classified them in the great family of the Slav peoples.” The Greek Helsinki Monitor reports: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness. Unfortunately, according to members of the community, this term was later used by the Greek authorities in a pejorative, discriminatory way; hence the reluctance if not hostility of modern-day Macedonians of Greece (i.e. people with a Macedonian national identity) to accept it."
  In his most famous work "On the Macedonian Matters" (available online), Misirkov uses the word собитие (a cognate to the Bulgarian събитие) where настан is used today, though it still exists in some dialects.
  Focus News (July 4, 2003) Kosovo Government Acquires Macedonian language and grammer books for Gorani Minority Schools

Bibliografi 
 Kramer, Christina (2003), Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students. Revised and expanded second edition. University of Wisconsin Press. May 2003. ISBN 978-0-299-18804-7
 Dorian, Nancy, (1992), "Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death", ISBN 0-521-43757-1
 Friedman, V. (2001) Macedonian (SEELRC)
 Lunt, H., (1952), Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language (Skopje)

Rujukan

Pautan luar 
 A grammar of Macedonian by Victor Friedman
 Macedonian - English, Greek, Albanian, German, French, Italian translator
 
 BBC Education - Languages: Macedonian, Makedonski
 The Macedonian Language
 Macedonian - English Dictionary
 Reading and Pronouncing Macedonian: An Interactive Tutorial
 Otto Kronsteiner. The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Future Prospects of the Macedonian Literary Language
 UCLA Language materials project: Macedonian profile 
 Krste Misirkov - Za Makedonckite Raboti (Complete text of the book)
 Nature of Standard Macedonian lanuage by Mladen Srbinovski
 The Macedonian nationality 

Bahasa Slavik Selatan
Bahasa di Macedonia Utara
Bahasa di Yunani
Bahasa Bulgaria
Bahasa di Serbia
Bahasa Vojvodina
Bahasa di Albania
Bahasa Itali