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Macedonian alphabet
Makedonska azbuka "Macedonian alphabet" in Macedonian language
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
9th century – present
Official script
North Macedonia
Languages
Macedonian
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
Phoenician alphabet
Greek alphabet (partly Glagolitic alphabet)
Early Cyrillic alphabet (partly Serbian Cyrillic alphabet)[2]
Macedonian alphabet
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Cyrl(220), Cyrillic
Unicode
Unicode alias
Cyrillic
Unicode range
subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF)
This language reads left to right
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The orthography of the Macedonian language includes an alphabet consisting of 31 letters (Macedonian: Македонска азбука, romanized: Makedonska azbuka), which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.
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 alphabet used the same phonemic principles employed by Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864) and Krste Misirkov (1874–1926).
Before standardization, the language had been written in a variety of different versions of Cyrillic by different writers, influenced by Early Cyrillic, Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian orthography.
^Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.
^Alexander Maxwell, Slavic Macedonian Nationalism: From "Regional" to "Ethnic"', p. 146; in Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Part 1. with Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer as ed., LIT, Münster, 2008. ISBN 3825813878, pp. 127-154.
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