Do you think that there is a Macedonian nation and language or they are part of Bulgarian language and nation?
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Blahblah has answered you very well and I do think that is an answer from an intelligent person that knows quite a few things. However I do feel I have to add and correct some things in the answer that blahblah gave. \n\nThe people that call them selves Macedonians today were not alive 200 years ago :) but even then even though a Macedonian state did not exist and even though the language was still not codified there were people that definitely felt Macedonian and worked on the “Macedonian cause” (look into the collected documents of the UK diplomacy regarding Macedonia).\n Two questions that came to my mind as I read blahblah’s answer were: “Does he know what a dialect is?” and “Just how much does he know of Bulgarian or Macedonian language?”   \nThe grammar of both languages has distinct features both morphological and syntactic. While, the lexis of Bulgarian contains a large number of Russian borrowings infused through great Russian influence Macedonian does not have what you called Serbian loan words because in most cases those are Old Church Slavonic words (A language which is dead now but served as the origin for all three languages). \n\nSo to answer the question, there is a Macedonian nation with quite a distinct language.
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Slavian - or more properly in English, Slavic - is a cultural term and not a racial phenotype.  The five phenotypes are: Caucasian/Caucasoid, Mongolian/Mongoloid, Ethopian/Neg roid,  Malayan/Australoid, and Amerindian.  Sometimes a sixth race, Capoid, is also included.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28historical_definitions%29\n\n"Historians do not agree over the origin of the Illyrians. Some of them maintain that the Illyrians descended from the pre-Indo-European Pelasgians, while most scholars place them in the later wave of Indo-European invasions. "\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania\n\n"Whether the Pelasgian language was pre-Indo-European or not, and the extent to which it was a single language or not, are modern disputes that are colored by contemporary nationalist issues. Scholars have since come to use the term 'Pelasgian' somewhat indiscriminately, to indicate all the autochthonous inhabitants of these lands before the arrival of the Greeks ..."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelasgians\n\n"Physical anthropology defines Caucasoid with a pattern of physical traits typical of humans indigenous to an area including Europe, South Asia, West Asia and parts of North Africa, Central Asia."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasoid\n\n"Indo-European is a linguistic term, referring to:\n * the family of Indo-European languages \n * the associated speakers, the Indo-Europeans\n * the academic field of Indo-European studies\n * sometimes, for brevity, to Proto-Indo-European:\n          o the Proto-Indo-European language\n          o the associated hypothetical speakers or                             \n          o hypothetical ethnic group, the Proto-Indo-Europeans"\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-european\n\n"The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. "\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages\n\nTherefore, academics who characterize Albanians (Illyrians) as an Indo-European people would likely consider them of the Caucasoid phenotype.  Academics who consider them Pelasgian either would not know how to racially categorize them or would consider the matter up to debate.
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I think both languages belong to Fenno-Ugrian group, true, languages are very very different (I speak Finnish but could not understand a word of Hungarian, whereas Estonian language is very similar to Finnish!).\nI don't know why the languages are in the same group. I'd kind of think that Hungarian is in the Slavic languages group.
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This is a general confusion! Greece of course is accepting the name Macedonia since it is a Greek name! The entire northern Greece is called the province of Macedonia (for the last 3000 years)! The problem is with a small state that emerge from Yugoslavia. That small state is called Republic of Makedonija or Fyrom (former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia) or Slav Macedonia. That small state instead of using its name its using the Greek name Macedonia or Makedonia trying desperately to link itself with the glory past of the Greek region (ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia was the homeland of Alexander the Grate). That effort of course is not a problem! Everyone is entitle to link himself with any past he likes! It is totally acceptable! The problem is with the fact that the state of FYROM or Makedonija(pronounce as makedonitsa) is deliberately trying to prove that ancient Macedonia was not Greek and that real Macedonia in Greece should be returned to them since they use the same name! Remarkable isn't it!\nThe paranoia of that state is so incredible that although their language (makedonijian) is a Bulgarian dialect they refer to it as Macedonian. Although the last 50 years they were called Makedonijans or Slav Macedonians in recent years they refer to themselves only as Macedonians conveniently forgetting to say that they are Slavs.
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For the same reason that it's also a German, Italian, and Romansh speaking country. That's what the people speak. That's what they have spoken for centuries. \nSwitzerland is a country that grew out of different alpine peoples banding together for their common good and common defense. Due to those original differences, the modern multilingual state exists.
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Yes it is and the official language is Mandarin and the written language is the same no matter what dialect they speak.  The definition of a Nation-State is not based on languages but rather on geographical boundaries.  There are numerous "nations" that have multiple official languages.  Singapore and the Netherlands are just a couple examples.
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This was really an interesting question. I actually went and looked up in google and one fo the sites actually had info on languages other than the official languages.  Check this one out........ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=NO
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I differ like you do since i saw in your profile that you are Croatian too. Most ppl not living in former Yugoslav countries have a trouble of understanding those issues on the Balkans. I have a lot of communications with ppl from abroad always asking questions about the language, war and other issues. It is very hard to expain linguistic differences, other things can be much more easily explained. If we want to understand at least some of the differences we have to go back to history, but not to the migration of ppl. \nCroatia is largely influenced by the Italians (coastline), Austrians and Hungarian which can be seen it the language, way of life and cuisine. Serbia, on the other hand, was under Russian influence due to the royal connections. While on the coastline we use a lot of italian vocabulary, in the north around Zagreb a lot of german words are used. \nBesides, the Croatian and  Serbian language differ in vocabulary, pronounciation, grammar and script. Even in former Yugoslavia the official language was Serbo-Croatian, and serbian has always used a lot of foreign esp. turk loanwords. The croatian use the ijekavica and the serbian ekavica e.g lijep (cro) vs. lep (ser). During the last 15 years the changes appear even much bigger because there is a process of language purification going on in Croatia. An airplane is now in standard Cro called zrakoplov and in Serb avion. But, I always stress that I don't need an interpreter for talking to someone from the former Yugoslavia, except for Macedonian and Slovenian.\nanother important issue is that language is a symbol of national identity and if you lose your language you somehow lose your natural means of communication. Though it doesn't mean you have to isolate yourself from any linguistic influences because language changes due to different trends and influences.\nFor does feeling sorry for Yugoslavia falling apart if it were a perfect country no one would want its breakup. Even Montenegro who stayed for 15 years in a federation with the serbs couldn't wait to get out of it
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I am from Romania,so I speak Romanian,but we are a lot of romanians and we know a lot of things.That's why we are answering on this site and we are doing it very well.
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The term nation is often used as a synonym for ethnic group (sometimes "ethnos"), but although ethnicity is now one of the most important aspects of cultural or social identity for the members of most nations, people with the same ethnic origin may live in different nation-states and be treated as members of separate nations for that reason.\n\nIn political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory.\n\nso in simple terms - a nation consists of people and a country is a physical location.
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"German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)\nnote: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national languages, but only the first three are official languages"\n\nDont quote me on those figures, they come from the CIA LOL
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A bit. I studied it along with Baltic and Germanic languages, and it is similar to forms of Prussian.
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Hello XoSexierDenYewXo!\nYou mean you are from Makedonija?\n(Slav Macedonia?) I am from Greece! \nYou can mail me if you like!\nWish you the best!\n{Do not confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia or Macedon (which was the birth place of Alexander) with the modern state of Makedonija (or FYROM or Slav Macedonia as they are not related at all). The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with real Macedonia in Greece.}\nFor ovichichka:\n"My friend,\nI made a small comment about the use of the Greek name Macedonia. Just to prevent any confusion with real Macedonia in Greece! It is not about politics but it is about History. There isn't any hate from my side but only friendship!"
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OK I'm pretty sure this isn't Bosnian though Kaj is Sta (what)in the Croatian accent..... Ke and odime are both definately macedonian only.\n\nIt is most likely to be Macedonian written with latin letters....But I think there are a few typos in it whatever the language.\n\nBut I think the translation goes something with  this gist.......\n\n\nIF WE ARE GOING OUT THIS EVENING.. I WILL TRY TO CALL YOU...
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These is no such thing as slavic population by nation. Slav are not are minority in different nations, but type of nations. Search among Russia and eastern europe countries. These are peopple that say they have slavic oridine, but that is not a type os etnicity.
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It's called discrimination.\nI have a dual nationality- Bulgarian and British\nBulgaria decided ti impose restrictions for British citizens in Bulgaria as well.Romania should do the same!It's a two way street!
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Don't think anyone hates anyone else. There's a dispute still raging over the use of the name Macedonia. (Yawn)\n\n Greece takes a long time to sort out its old disputes!!