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About 99% of the roughly 6,300 inscriptions discovered by archaeologists within the confines of ancient Macedonia were written in the Greek language, using the Greek alphabet. The legends in all currently discovered coins also in Greek. [46]
- 1st millennium BC
- Macedon
- None
The orthography of the Macedonian language includes an alphabet consisting of 31 letters (Macedonian: Македонска азбука, romanized: Makedonska azbuka), which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.
- Cyrillic
- Alphabet
- Macedonian
- subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF)
Macedonian language, South Slavic language that is most closely related to Bulgarian and is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. It is the official language of the Republic of North Macedonia and is spoken by more than 1.3 million people there.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In South Macedonia, the Greek alphabet was also widespread and used by Macedonian writers who finished their education at Greek schools. The period between the two World Wars saw the usage of the alphabets of the surrounding countries including the Albanian one depending on where the writers came from.
Ancient Macedonian Language - a distinct Indo-European language. Macedonia and Greece: Two Ancient and Separate Nations - John Shea 1997 pp.23-35. To get to the real Macedonians we need to start a little before the time of Alexander the Great. If we go too far back, say to the seventh century B.C., we find that Macedon was a tiny little piece ...
First written: 19th century. Writing systems: Cyrillic, Latin and Greek alphabets. Status: official language in North Macedonia, recognised minority langauge in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegonvina, Romania and Serbia.
A basic assumption of our research is that in writing the text on the Rosetta Stone three scripts were used, but in three languages: ancient Egyptian, written in the hieroglyphic script, ancient Macedonian, written in the demotic script, and ancient Greek written in the uncial alphabet. his assumption is based on the fact that the rulers of ...
