Macedonian Alphabet
The orthography of Macedonian includes an alphabet (Macedonian: Македонска азбука, Makedonska azbuka), which is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script, as well as language-specific conventions of spelling and punctuation.
The Macedonian alphabet was standardized in 1944 by a committee formed in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (then part of the federation of Yugoslavia) after the liberation from the Nazis in World War II. The alphabet used the same phonemic principles employed by Vuk Karadžić and Krste Petkov Misirkov.
Before standardization, the language had been written in a variety of different versions of Cyrillic by different writers, influenced by Bulgarian, Early Cyrillic or Serbian orthography.
Read more about Macedonian Alphabet: The Alphabet, Specialized Letters, Development of The Macedonian Alphabet
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