Macedonian alphabet
| Macedonian Alphabet |
|
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Languages | Macedonian |
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Time period
|
1944–present |
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Parent systems
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Cyrillic script
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| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 | Cyrl, 220 |
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Unicode alias
|
Cyrillic |
| subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04F0) | |
The orthography of Macedonian includes an alphabet (Macedonian: Македонска азбука), 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 the Yugoslav Macedonia after the Partisan liberation in 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 Bulgarian, Early Cyrillic or Serbian orthography.
Origins:
The following table provides the upper and lower case forms of the Macedonian alphabet, along with the IPA value for each letter:
In addition to the standard sounds of the letters Ѓ and Ќ above, in some accents these letters represent /dʑ/ and /tɕ/, respectively.
The above table contains the printed form of the Macedonian alphabet; the cursive script is significantly different, and is illustrated below in lower and upper case (letter order and layout below corresponds to table above).
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