Tag: Macedonian language
Culture 21.02.24 | 18:01

World Mother Language Day: Macedonian language is a solid social pillar

– Languages are important, not only as a means of communication, but also as an integral identity component of every individual and nation, for bridging differences, tolerance and mutual acceptance. Our mother tongue, the Macedonian language, is a reality in the world treasury of languages through...
News 03.02.24 | 17:23

Party in Albania protests recent snub of the Macedonian language

The Macedonain Alliance for European Integration, the main party of the ethnic Macedonians in Albania, protests the refusal of the Albanian authorities to use the Macedonian language during a recent ceremony. At the celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Prespa national park, the speeches and the...
Culture 26.01.24 | 18:01

Law on Use of Macedonian Language Adopted by Parliament

On Friday, lawmakers unanimously approved the replacement of the 1998 Law on the Use of the Macedonian Language with a newly adopted version. The session, presided over by newly-elected Speaker Jovan Mitreski, saw widespread endorsement of the new law. The legislation introduces several key provisions,...
Culture 18.01.24 | 20:22

Kostadinovska Stojchevska expressed her support, stating that any recognition or promotion of the Macedonian language on the international stage is a positive development

Minister of Culture Bisera Kostadinovska Stojchevska commended the inauguration of a Macedonian Language, Literature, and Culture Lectorate in Tirana, emphasizing the positive reception of Macedonian language promotion abroad. In a pre-forum statement to the media at the Union of Fighters on Thursday,...
Macedonia 13.08.23 | 11:02

Macedonian cited as a unique language in a Russian book from 1849

The Macedonian language was marked as a unique language, separate from other Slavic languages, in a lexicon prepared by Russian ethnographer Ivan Sakharov, all the way back to 1849. In the Tales of the Russian People, Sakharov cites the Macedonian as a language along with the Serbian, the Greek, and...
Macedonia 09.08.23 | 14:51

Professor Friedman: Only in the period of fascism, when the Bulgars beat the Macedonian children who spoke Macedonian, this language was a Bulgarian dialect

The Macedonian language is a separate Slavic language like Bulgarian, Serbian, and Croatian. The current problems will be somehow solved, but the Macedonian language exists and it will continue to exist, Professor Victor Friedman Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, perhaps the greatest American and...
Macedonia 30.06.23 | 14:03

The new Macedonian language curriculum for sixth grade lacks the history of the language

The training on the new Macedonian language curriculum for sixth grade perplexed the teachers, who noticed that it lacks thee part referring to the history of the Macedonian language, daily Nova Makedonia reports. According to the previous curriculum, the basic knowledge on the historical development...
News Macedonia 24.05.23 | 15:07

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti congratulated the Day of Pan-Slavic Educators in Macedonian language

In a special video address, the leader of the ruling ethnic Albanian party DUI, Ali Ahmeti, congratulated The Day of Pan-Savic Educators in the Macedonian language! Ahmeti never speaks Macedonian, claiming that he doesn’t speak the language well, thus this is a very rare and special event. “My...
Macedonia 10.02.23 | 14:06

Kjulavkova: Speakers of a language of 20 percent of the population have greater language rights than the constitutional right of Macedonian speakers

The status of the Macedonian language as an official language on the territory of the entire country has been established by the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia since the Macedonian Republic was part of the former Yugoslavia after the Second World War, writes professor Katica Kjulavkova. This...
Culture 10.11.22 | 13:56

After a break of 15 years, Macedonian Language Department opens at Ankara University

With the first, promotional class that was held yesterday at the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, the Department of Macedonian Language with a lectorate at the University of Ankara started working. The new lectureship was opened almost 15 years after the previous one – at the University...
Macedonia 26.10.22 | 22:01

Macedonia and EU sign Frontex agreement in Macedonian language

Macedonia signed the status agreement with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, in the Macedonian language on Wednesday evening. Czech Ambassador Jaroslav Ludva, representing the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson signed...
Macedonia 31.08.22 | 13:58

Roth: Macedonian is a language in a Europe of cultural diversity

“Добро утро Скопје! Good to be back in challenging, frustrating times for the Macedonians. But you’ll never walk alone… Hope is key! And by the way: Macedonian is a language in a Europe of cultural diversity!, wrote Michael Roth, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs,...
Macedonia Culture 28.08.22 | 12:22

International seminar on Macedonian language: Bulgaria’s claims that the Macedonian language is a dialect of the Bulgarian are pointless and political

More than 300 undergraduate and postgraduate students and doctoral students in Macedonian studies in 20 centers around the world study the Macedonian language and culture and are the biggest ambassadors for its promotion. Some of them are improving their knowledge and skills these days in Ohrid at the...
Macedonia 27.07.22 | 14:39

Osmani doesn’t want to reveal who are the authors of the declaration on the Macedonian language which renounces the dialects outside the borders

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bujar Osmani, during yesterday’s meeting with his Portuguese colleague, João Gomes Cravinho, was asked about who are the authors of the content of the Declaration on the Macedonian language, which was submitted to the European Union in response to the Bulgarian...
Macedonia 27.07.22 | 10:33

Quietly and sneakily, the Government reduced the number of Macedonian language classes

SDSM, together with DUI, through the new plan for primary education, are cutting the number of Macedonian language classes in primary education, prof. Vesna Janevska alarmed. We remind you of the tragicomic reform of Mila Carovska for primary education, called Concept. Despite the non-acceptance of the...
Macedonia 23.07.22 | 12:04

Bulgaria recognized the Macedonian language 66 years ago, this document is still in force

The Bulgarian National Assembly has officially recognized the Macedonian language as separate and distinct from Bulgarian 66 years ago and this recognition is still in force, so the current rhetoric by Sofia about not recognizing the Macedonian language and defining it as a Bulgarian dialect is just...
Macedonia 22.07.22 | 12:32

Ulcar: By giving up on minorities, we also give up on our dialects

The biggest problem in the Declaration on the Macedonian language is that it is claimed that it has its own historical and temporal continuity, but also that the dialect expansion is limited within the state framework of today’s Republic of Macedonia, with which we practically give up the dialect...
Macedonia 21.07.22 | 21:27

Greece recognized the Macedonian language and dialects in 1925, Osmani canceled this

The fact that the Macedonian language has deep roots and is not from 1945 and especially not spread only on the territory of today’s Macedonia is evidenced by the 1925 Alphabet issued by the Greek government. It confirms the existence of the Macedonian language among the Macedonians in Greece...
Macedonia 21.07.22 | 12:56

Muslim Macedonians from Debar-Struga region to defend Macedonian language with protests

Residents of the village of Podgorci in Struga have announced mass protests for the defense of the Macedonian language. According to the information of the organizer, the goal is to raise the voice of this group of fellow citizens against the latest attempts to assimilate another attribute of the state. Podgorci...
Macedonia 20.07.22 | 22:15

Young Macedonian linguists issue Proclamation for the Protection of the Macedonian Language and Literature and Macedonian Studies

Young Macedonian linguists issued Wednesday a Proclamation for the Protection of the Macedonian Language and Literature and Macedonian Studies after the Macedonian Foreign Affairs Ministry published the unilateral declaration on Macedonian language. After the publication of the Unilateral Declaration...
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