In the history of the Polish language, there have never emerged such situations or necessities where linguistic norms were dependent on the findings of a commission or were determined by a group, not solely of representatives of science and literature, but also of political activists, as was the case with the literary Macedonian language taking shape in the second half of the XIX century. Trans-language conditioning of the codification of the Macedonian language was especially evident in the post-World War II Balkan reality.

Linguistic norms have played a principal role in the formation of the literary Polish language; these norms were binding at the ruling royal court (court language) as well as being the language of writers and educated people (Jan Kochanowski, Andrzej Trzecieski and Łukasz Górnicki). With regards to other Slavic languages, whose contemporary literary norms were created during the XIX century – specifically the southern Slavic languages: Serbian and Croatian (the activities of Vuk Karadžić), Bulgarian (the works of Christo Botew, Luben Karawełow and Iwan Wazow) as well as of Macedonian language – some manner of solution was attained by undertaking a process of codification. These procedures dealt with not only letters of the alphabet and writing norms, but also with some rules of grammar as well as planned lexicographical descriptions of vocabulary.

Codification, and somewhat later standardization, and also unification are universal terms used in relation to the Macedonian language of the last fifty years.7 These terms appear with others, including: the standard Macedonian language (стандарден македонски јазик), determining linguistic norms (нормирање на македонскиот јазк) and establish a set of official formal measures as well as taking positive or negative decisions regarding more or less regular and typical linguistic phenomena with the aim of imposing upon them mandatory normative powers by passing the appropriate laws or decrees. There are two ratification dates currently recognized in Macedonia: May 3, 1945 – the establishment of alphabet (the alphabet was announced in the “Nova Makedonija” daily newspaper) – and 2 June 1945 – the adoption of spelling rules (this was confirmed in writing on 7 June by the Ministry of Education).