Macedonian alphabet

Macedonian alphabet
"Macedonian alphabet" in Macedonian
Script type
Time period
1945 – present
StatusOfficial script in  North Macedonia
LanguagesMacedonian language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Cyrl (220), ​Cyrillic
Unicode
Unicode alias
Cyrillic
Unicode range
subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF)
This language reads left to right
 This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Macedonian alphabet (Macedonian: Македонска азбука) is the official alphabet of North Macedonia, it is a variation of the Cyrillic script, consisting of 31 letters. It was officially codified in 1945 and began being used in May 5, 1945.[2] The modern Macedonian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic alphabet proposed by Krste Petkov Misirkov, and some letters were also taken from the alphabet reforms of Vuk Karadžić.[3]

Although Krste Petkov Misirkov used signs for the same sounds. From Vuk Karadžić's alphabet, the graphs for the letters lj, nj and j are accepted, and all other specificities are according to Misirkov's recommendations. The same letters are also present in the alphabet of Krste Petkov Misirkov, but with graphic symbols l' and n'. It is important to note that from Vuk Karadzic's alphabet, only the graphs for the letters are accepted, but not the sounds that correspond to these graphs in the same alphabet.

Sources

  1. ↑ Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (Jan./Feb. 2000): 21.
  2. ↑ Through the Language of Koneski and Miladinovci to the World of Macedonian Folk Poetry (2023) by CENL news
  3. ↑ Bechev, Dimitar (2019). Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 187. ISBN 1538119625.