Macedonian

Mac·e·do·ni·an

M0005500 (măs′ĭ-dō′nē-ən)adj. Of or relating to ancient or modern Macedonia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.n.1. A native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Macedonia.2. The language of ancient Macedonia, of uncertain affiliation within Indo-European.3. The Slavic language of modern Macedonia, closely related to Bulgarian.

Macedonian

(ˌmæsɪˈdəʊnɪən) adj1. (Peoples) of or relating to Macedonia, its inhabitants, or any of their languages or dialects2. (Placename) of or relating to Macedonia, its inhabitants, or any of their languages or dialects3. (Languages) of or relating to Macedonia, its inhabitants, or any of their languages or dialectsn4. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Macedonia5. (Languages) the language of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, belonging to the south Slavonic branch of the Indo-European family6. (Historical Terms) an extinct language spoken in ancient Macedonia7. (Languages) an extinct language spoken in ancient Macedonia

Mac•e•do•ni•an

(ˌmæs ɪˈdoʊ ni ən)

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Macedonia. 2. a South Slavic language spoken in modern Macedonia. 3. the sparsely attested language of ancient Macedonia, variously regarded as a dialect of Greek or a distinct Indo-European language. adj. 4. of or pertaining to Macedonia, its inhabitants, or their language. [1550–60]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Macedonian - a native or inhabitant of Macedon Macedon, Makedonija, Macedonia - the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and BulgariaEuropean - a native or inhabitant of EuropePhilippian - a native or inhabitant of Philippi in ancient Macedonia
	2.	Macedonian - the Slavic language of modern MacedoniaSlavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages
Adj.	1.	Macedonian - of or relating to Macedonia or its inhabitants; "Macedonian hills"

Translations

Macedonian

the language of the present-day Macedonians; one of the principal languages of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Macedonian belongs to the eastern branch of the South Slavic languages. The main dialect groups are the western, eastern, and northern.

The Macedonian literary language had formed by the mid-1940’s from the central subdialects of the western dialect, which is similar to the colloquial language. The alphabet is Slavic (Cyrillic). Literary Macedonian has five vowel phonemes (i, e, a, o, and u) and a syllabic r. Stress is mobile, occurring on the antepenultimate syllable (prochitav, prochitavme). Consonants specific to Macedonian include the affricates S (dz) and U (d£), and the mediopalatals K and g (from Common Slavic *tj and * dj). Nouns have three types of postpositional definite article; oblique case inflections have been lost. The future tense is formed by means of the particle Ke; there are four past tenses (including a perfect tense of the type imam videno, “I have seen”), and indirect tense forms of the indicative and conditional mood. Analytism has developed in Macedonian, as in the other Balkan languages.

REFERENCES

Selishchev, A. M. Ocherki po makedonskoi dialektologii, vol. 1. Kazan, 1918.
Usikova, R. P. Morfologiia imeni sushchestvil’nogo iglagola vsovremennom makedonskom literaturnom iazyke. Skopje, 1967.
Koneski, B. Gramatika na makedonskiot literaturen jazik, parts 1-2. Skopje, 1967.
Koneski, B. Istorija no makedonskiot jazik. Skopje, 1965.
Tolovski, D., and V. M. Illich-Svitych. Makedonsko-russkiislovar’. Moscow, 1963.

R. P. USIKOVA

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noun a native or inhabitant of Macedon

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noun the Slavic language of modern Macedonia

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