Langenesis

Indo-European family

Macedonian

c. 1400 CE – today Living

Macedonian (c. 1400 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Slavic → Proto-South Slavic → Old Church Slavonic → Macedonian.

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Speakers
1.6M (1,600,000)
ISO 639-3
mkd
Glottocode
mace1250

Eastern South Slavic, forming a dialect continuum with Bulgarian; standard codified in 1945. Its relationship to Bulgarian is politically contested; the intermediate medieval stage is not modelled separately.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Slavicc. 200 BCE – 600 CE
  3. Proto-South Slavicc. 600 CE – 900 CE
  4. Old Church Slavonic862 CE – 1100 CE
  5. Macedonianc. 1400 CE – today

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Old Church Slavonic.

Sources