Quote Whoever is familiar with the basic structural principles of the two neighboring languages must, even though he may not be a philologist, arrive, on the basis of the examples cited here, at the same conclusion to which also the French slavicist, Louis Leger, came, and I repeat his words: The Macedonian Slavs are Bulgarians and ...

Quote It [Macedonian language] has not created by natural means, as all other languages in the world, but was created by political circumstances. It is an absurd, that it was created on a certain date - namely August 2nd, 1944, and at certain place - the monastery “Prohor Pchinski”, with a decree. Such an event has ...

Quote “From a strictly linguistic point of view Macedonian can be called a Bulgarian dialect, as structurally it is most similar to Bulgarian. — Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (1994)

Macedonian national conscience and from that conscientious promotion of Macedonian as a written language, first appears just in the beginning of our century and is strengthened particularly during in the years between the two world wars Fr. Scholz, “Slavische Etymologie”, 1966, p.61.

Indeed, the macedonian language is a product essentialy of political origin V. Pisani, “Il Macedonico”, in, “Paideia” 12 (1957), p.250.

apart from the word Bugari which is the true national name of the Slavic Macedonians, which shows that they adopted the form of the name “Bulgarians” given to them by the Serbs A. Vaillant, “Le probleme du Slave Macedonien”, in “Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris” 39 (1938), p.205.

“……….the nucleus of the Macedonian vocabulary consists of words which have exact correspondence in Greek.The importance of these words and the archaic phonological character of Macedonian lead to the conclusion that these are not borrowings but inherited words: this fact is confirmed by the genetic unity of Macedonian and Greek. Moreover, the numerous lexical and phonological ...

Recently we witness a new flux of FYROM propaganda in the net by claiming a so-called "Macedonian" called Dragan, sailed together with Columbus's crew back in 1492. Unfortunately for the falsificators of history, their baseless claim is exposed in the book "Facts about American Immigration" of David M. Brownstone and Irene M. Franck where through the evidence presented by the authors ...