Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- A PRAGMATICS OF DISCOURSE
- I Basic Tendencies in the Linguistics of Discourse
- II The Language of National and Cultural Discourses
- III On Codification of the Norm of the Contemporary Macedonian Language
- IV Notions of Macedonian Man // Macedonian Woman and Macedonian Language in Scientific Discourse
- V The Macedonian Language versus other Languages in Macedonia
- VI In the Circle of Politics and Linguistics
- VII The Macedonian Language and the Framework Agreement (Рамковен договор)
- VIII The Macedonian Language in Public Communication
- IX Forms of Address in Contemporary Macedonian Language
- B LANGUAGE IN THE DISCOURSE: MACEDONIAN – POLISH
- C FOLKLORE
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
V - The Macedonian Language versus other Languages in Macedonia
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- A PRAGMATICS OF DISCOURSE
- I Basic Tendencies in the Linguistics of Discourse
- II The Language of National and Cultural Discourses
- III On Codification of the Norm of the Contemporary Macedonian Language
- IV Notions of Macedonian Man // Macedonian Woman and Macedonian Language in Scientific Discourse
- V The Macedonian Language versus other Languages in Macedonia
- VI In the Circle of Politics and Linguistics
- VII The Macedonian Language and the Framework Agreement (Рамковен договор)
- VIII The Macedonian Language in Public Communication
- IX Forms of Address in Contemporary Macedonian Language
- B LANGUAGE IN THE DISCOURSE: MACEDONIAN – POLISH
- C FOLKLORE
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Summary
The majority of the Republic of Macedonia's – a state in the South Eastern region of the European continent – population speaks the Macedonian language (65%), recognized as an official language. In addition, the Albanian language is used by 25% of the population as well as the Turkish and Serbian languages and other languages. Orthodox Christianity is the predominant religion in the Republic (64% of the population), but Muslims are also an important part comprising ¼ of the society (more than 500,000). This number also includes Orthodox Albanians, of whom the majority are concentrated in the region of Dolna, Mala and Golema Reka (Lower, Small and Big River) in 17 villages. The people who live there are known as Mijaks (Macedonian: Мијаци, Mijaci), Mijacs – Orthodox or Muslim Macedonians whose mother tongue is the Albanian language and they are Orthodox Christians. A portion of these ethnic Macedonians are referred to as Shkreti.
In the family of Slavic languages, the Macedonian language, together with the Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian languages, belong to the South Slavic language group. Today, it is the official language of Macedonia, and yet, in accordance with the constitutional amendments and with the Framework Agreement signed in Ohrid in 2001 t. 6.5 and 6.6:
Any other language spoken by at least 20% of the population is also an official language in terms of local government, in municipalities where a certain community comprises at least 20% of the population of the municipality, the language of that community will be used as an official language in addition to Macedonian.
It is estimated that the Macedonian language is spoken by 2 to 2.5 million people, including the Macedonian diaspora
The legal status of languages in Macedonia, the Macedonian language, as an official language, as well as other languages, other than Macedonian, was established by Amendment V of the Constitution of Republic of Macedonia:
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- Macedonian DiscoursesText Linguistics and Pragmatics, pp. 56 - 61Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2016