Macedonian alphabet
The Macedonian alphabet was standardized in 1945 by a committee formed in Yugoslav Macedonia after the Partisans took power at the end of World War II.The committees charged with drafting the Macedonian alphabet decided on phonemic principle with a one-to-one match between letters and distinctive sounds.The following year, the committee published the "Macedonian primer" (written by Kosta Grupče and Naum Evro) which used the Serbian letters Ђ and Ћ for these phonemes.The majority of the intellectual and political leaders of the Macedonian Bulgarians used this version of the Cyrillic script, which was also changed in the 19th and early 20th century.At the time, transcriptions of Macedonian used Cyrillic with adaptations drawing from Old Church Slavonic, Serbian and Bulgarian, depending on the preference of the writer.The committee chose the dialects of Veles, Prilep and Bitola as the basis for the literary language (as Misirkov had in 1903), and proposed a Cyrillic alphabet.[19] On the other hand, opponents of Koneski indicatеd that this phoneme is distributed among the western Macedonian dialects too and a letter Ъ should be included in the standardized at that time literary language.It includes Vojislav Ilic, Vasil Iloski, Blaze Koneski, Venko Markovski, Mirko Pavlovski and Krum Toshev.On May 3, 1945, the second committee presented its recommendations, which were accepted by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia that same day, and published in Nova Makedonija, the official newspaper.The committee's recommendations were: The rejection of the Ъ (Big Yer), together with the adoption of four Serbian Cyrillic letters (Ј, Џ, Љ and Њ), led to accusations that the committee was "Serbianizing" Macedonian, while those in favor of including the Big Yer (Ъ) were accused of "Bulgarianizing" Macedonian.
Default Russian (Eastern) forms on the left.
Alternate Bulgarian (Western) upright forms in the middle.
Alternate Serbian/Macedonian (Southern) italic forms on the right.
See also:
AlphabetNorth MacedoniaMacedonianEgyptian hieroglyphsPhoenician alphabetGreek alphabetGlagolitic alphabetEarly Cyrillic alphabetISO 15924UnicodeUnicode rangeCyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF)phonetic transcriptionsInternational Phonetic AlphabetMacedonian languageromanizedCyrillic scriptYugoslav MacedoniaPartisansWorld War IIphonemicVuk KaradžićKrste MisirkovEarly CyrillicRussianBulgarianSerbianLatin alphabetaccentscursive scriptupper casephonemesSouth Slavic languagesSerbo-CroatianBosnianCroatianMontenegrinSlavonic-SerbianDialectsShtokavianYounger IkavianBunjevacSlavonianŠokacDubrovnikEastern HerzegovinianUžiceZeta–RaškaSmederevo–VršacŠumadija–VojvodinaPrizren–TimokPrizren–South MoravaGoraniSvrljig–ZaplanjeTimok–LužnicaChakavianBurgenlandMoliseKajkavianTorlakianEkavianIjekavianIkavianComparison of standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and SerbianSlovenePrekmurje SloveneResianChurch SlavonicMeshterskiWesternSoutheasternNorthernSpoken MacedonianStandard MacedonianTransitional Bulgarian dialectsSlavic dialects of GreeceGaj's LatinSerbian CyrillicBohoričicaDajnčicaMetelčicaArebicaBosnian CyrillicGlagoliticMisirkovmagazineTemko PopovSecret Macedonian CommitteeMarko CepenkovGjorgjija PulevskiParteniy ZografskicognatesCyrillic letter DzehomoglyphLatin letter SRomanian Cyrillic alphabetRussian alphabetphonemeJe (Cyrillic)digraphFrenchhomographsvernacularChurch Slavonic languageliturgyOttoman EmpireBulgarian National RevivalDespot BadžovićMarko TsepenkovBalkan WarsKingdom of YugoslaviadialectHistory of the Macedonian languageSocialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaSocialist Republic of MacedoniaAnti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of MacedoniaVasil IljoskiVenko MarkovskiMihail PetruševskiPrilepBitolaOld Church SlavonicBlaže KoneskiVlado MaleskiIvan MazovCommunist Party of Yugoslavia