Macedonians

[Ushtari]

Everybody, feel free to PM me (or opening a thread) about anything that interests you regarding Macedonia, the Macedonians, our Macedonian language, culture, music, architecture and traditions. I will be glad to clarify anything that might have not been clear to any of you until now.

So? what do we know about these so called Macedonians, living in a tiny country in south-eastern Europe, ie Republic of Macedonia?

Who are they? what language do the speak? what is their origin?

Please discuss!

[Wanderlust]

this thread = inevitable bloodbath

you guys really love drama

[Absinthe]

[Macedonian]

I will present my facts, but I will not respond to any further provocation from anyone.

So? what do we know about these so called Macedonians, living in a tiny country in south-eastern Europe, ie Republic of Macedonia?

Who are they? what language do the speak? what is their origin?

Please discuss!

The Macedonians are an ethnicity living in the Balkans, numbering somewhere between 2 and 3 millions. Most of them live in the Republic of Macedonia (along with 400.000 Albanians), but they are also the only ethnic group living in all regions of the Macedonian region, namely Aegean Macedonia (in today's Greece, along the Greek majority, unknown number due to the inability to freely express the ethnicity in Greece), Pirin Macedonia (in Bulgaria, along with Bulgarians, also unknown number due to the same reason), Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo (in Albania, officially recognized, numbering about 30.000), Gora and Prohor Pcinjski (in Serbia±Kosovo, recognized by the Republic of Serbia as Macedonians, and by the Republic of Kosovo as Gorani).

They speak an East South Slavic language called Macedonian, which is the direct descendant of the Old Church Slavonic. It is closely related to Bulgarian and is more or less mutually intelligible (about 65%). It also shares a good deal of common words with Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin, but it has lost the cases, and one of it's unique characteristics is that it has three forms of definite articles (example "куќава kukjava" - "this house over here", "куќана kukjana" - "that house over there", "ќуќата" - "the house").

Our origin is subject to many theories, the currently accepted one is that we have no relation with the ancient Macedonians but are completely Slavic. I, as many Macedonians, do not support this theory since we have always called ourselves Macedonian, we always had songs about Alexander the Great (who some of our poets considered to be Slavic, i.e. the same as us), and identified with the ancient Macedonians BUT at the same time with the other Slavic nations, sympathizing "mother Russia" and so on. A lot of Macedonians were declared Serbs and Bulgarians simply because they followed the Serbian and Bulgarian church (we had no right of our own national church since the Hellenization of the Ohrid Archibishopric), but either group said that "we are Macedonian, and then Bulgarian/Serb/Slavic". After the national awakening in the late 19th century, most of those who previously declared themselves Bulgarian and Serbian have thrown that away and retained the Macedonian identity. Evilsayers will say that the "communist" regimes of USSR and SFRY have created the Macedonian nation, but the language exists apart from Bulgarian in all times. We have books from the 18th century written in the Macedonian language, very different from the Bulgarian one. And the first Macedonian alphabet wasn't created in 1945, it was created in 1903. That is, if we don't count the Cyrillic alphabet which was created in Macedonia in the 10th century.

[Lithium]

HAHAHAH
Are you mentally sick? I am so sorry for you... its obvious that you are a troll and you don't deserve anyone's attention here.

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[Groenewolf]

[Turkophagos]

[iNird]

Which part of Macedonia are you from?

2-3 million Macedonians? 400k Albanians? A bit delusional eh?

[Macedonian]

@Urpean: I am from the free part of Macedonia. And here we have 1,2 million Macedonians along with 400.000 Albanians, the remainder (400.000) being Turks, Bosniaks, Serbs, Roma and Vlach people.

I said that there are a total of 2-3 million Macedonians in the world, not in the Republic.