MACEDONIA IS NORTHERN GREECE

SKOPJE WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE KOSSOVO VILAYET AND WAS NEVER PART OF THE SO-CALLED GEOGRAPHIC MACEDONIA

the first grammar of the FYROM's literary language appeared in 1952, and the Institute for the FYROM's Language "Krste P' Misirkov" was founded the following year. Since the Second world 'war the new republic has used the full weight of the education system and the bureaucracy to make the new language common parlance, and indeed it is noticeable that old people still tend to speak a mixture of dialects which include obvious Serbianisms and Bulgarianisms, while those young enough to have gone through the education system in its entirety speak a purer "Macedonian".

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