Macedonian alphabet
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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.
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Macedonian alphabet | |
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![]() Makedonska azbuka "Macedonian alphabet" in Macedonian language | |
Script type | |
Time period | 1945 – present |
Official script | ![]() |
Languages | Macedonian |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
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ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Cyrl (220), Cyrillic |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Cyrillic |
subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF) | |
This language reads left to right | |
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The Macedonian alphabet was standardized in 1945 by a committee formed in Yugoslav Macedonia after the Partisans took power at the end of World War II. The alphabet used the same phonemic principles employed by Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864) and Krste Misirkov (1874–1926).
Before standardization, the language had been written in a variety of different versions of Cyrillic by different writers, influenced by Early Cyrillic, Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian orthography.