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Macedonia lost a leading intellectual light and the single most important figure in the standardization of Modern Macedonian, Blaze Koneski. It was Koneski's good fortune to be in the place and time that saw Macedonians able to realize the goal of a protracted struggle for their own modern literary language, and it was the good fortune of Macedonian to have a brilliant linguist and writer in Blaze Koneski to provide bis fellow countrymen with the example and guidance of a powerful and sensitive intellect. The Slavic dialects of the territory of Macedonia form a transition from the Serbo-Croatian dialects to their north and the Bulgarian dialects to their east. Closely related to, but distinct from, the dialects of these latter two languages, the Macedonian dialects and the territory on which they are spoken were claimed by both the Serbian and Bulgarian states in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, äs the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled them all for five hundred years, gradually declined and finally collapsed. The period after 1912 saw the Macedonians divided among four countries -Serbia (later Yugoslavia), Bulgaria, Greece and Albania -none of which recognized their lang

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

1994

Language

SL

Field

Social Sciences