Macedonian language and dialects

[Vojnik]

This is just a thread showing information on the Macedonian language and dialects. I will start off with maps.









Taken from the book “The Indo-European Languages” edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul Ramat, 1998, page 416.


Source: "A Historical Phonology Of the Macedonian Language" by Blazhe Koneski

This map shows the distribution of the Macedonian dialects within Macedonia

[Romanion]

I have an aunt who comes from a village near Florina, and she can speak Macedonian and Greek.

[Vojnik]

I have an aunt who comes from a village near Florina, and she can speak Macedonian and Greek.

The older generations living in those areas still speak Macedonian which was their first language, but it's a shame that the Macedonian language will soon disappear with the new generations only speaking Greek.

[Romanion]

The older generations living in those areas still speak Macedonian which was their first language, but it's a shame that the Macedonian language will soon disappear with the new generations only speaking Greek.

Yes my cousins don't speak Macedonian like she does. She also has really interesting stories about hiding in mines when she was 10 years old for protection from the bombs dropping in Northern Greece during the civil war. My childhood was much more peaceful thank god.

[Vojnik]

This is the dialect of Buf/Akrites, a village close to Lerin/Florina.

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This would of been the dialect my ancestors spoke.

[Vojnik]

Yes my cousins don't speak Macedonian like she does. She also has really interesting stories about hiding in mines when she was 10 years old for protection from the bombs dropping in Northern Greece during the civil war. My childhood was much more peaceful thank god.

Yes there has so much stories. Romanion, what does your Aunt/Teta identify as?

[Romanion]

Yes there has so much stories. Romanion, what does your Aunt/Teta identify as?

She identifies as Greek Macedonian, but she calls the language Macedonian not Bulgarian.

[Vojnik]

She identifies as Greek Macedonian, but she calls the language Macedonian not Bulgarian.

What is your opinion, who are the slavic speaking people in Greece? what do you see them as?

[Vojnik]

This is a Macedonian woman from the village of Buf/Akritas, Lerin/Florina region, northern Greece talking and singing in Macedonian. At the end she screams out with her fist in the air "razbudise Makedonija", in English, "wake up Macedonia".

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[Vojnik]

Voden/Edessa dialect:

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