History of The Macedonian Language - Periods

Periods

The Macedonistics, the history of the Macedonian language classifies into nine developmental stages:

1. Canonic period - 9 to 11 c.
2. Macedonian recension of the Old Church Slavonic language - 12 to 13 c.
3. Macedonian recension of mixed type with the Serbian recension - 14 t0 18 c.
4. Damascene period - 16 c.
5. period of Russian influence - 18 c.
6. period of two styles i.e. folks speech and literary Church Slavonic - first half of 19 c.
7. discussion about the shape of the standard Macedonian language - second half of the 19 c.
8. first steps of the standardization of the Macedonian language and its final standardization - 1944 - today
9. standardization of the Macedonian language

Since the primary classification presented above is detailed, often, the history of the Macedonian language is divided into four stages:

1. Early Slavic literature on the territory of Macedonia - 9 - 11 c.
2. Macedonian recension of the Old Church Slavonic - 14 - 18 c.
3. Damascene period - 16 - 18 c.
4. early modern and standardized Macedonian language - 1944 c. - today