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Languages Of North Macedonia
The official language of North Macedonia is Macedonian, while Albanian has co-official status. Macedonian is spoken by roughly two-thirds of the population natively, and as a second language by much of the rest of the population. Albanian is the largest minority language. There are a further five national minority languages: Turkish, Romani, Serbian, Bosnian, and Aromanian. The Macedonian Sign Language is the country's official sign language. Statistics According to the 2002 census, North Macedonia had a population of 2,022,547. A total of 1,344,815 Macedonian citizens declared they speak Macedonian, 507,989 speak Albanian, 71,757 speak Turkish, 38,528 speak Roma, 6,884 speak Aromanian, 24,773 speak Serbian, 8.560 speak Bosnian and 19,241 speak other languages. Language policy Macedonian (official and national) The language policy in North Macedonia is regulated by the 7 Article of the Constitution of North Macedonia and the Law of languages. According to the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makedonija - Jezicki Sastav Po Naseljima 2002
Macedonia (, , , ), most commonly refers to: * North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia * Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity * Macedonia (Greece), a former administrative region, spanning today three administrative subdivisions of northern Greece * Macedonia (region), a geographic and historical region that today includes parts of six Balkan countries (see map) Macedonia, Makedonia, Makedonija, or Makedoniya may also refer to: Other historical entities * Achaemenid Macedonia, a satrapy of Achaemenid Empire * Diocese of Macedonia, a late Roman administrative unit * Independent Macedonia (1944), a proposed puppet state of the Axis powers (1944) * Macedonia (Roman province), a province of the early Roman Empire * Macedonia (theme), a province of the Byzantine Empire * Socialist Republic of Macedonia, a part of the former Yugoslavia (1945–1991) and a predecessor of North Macedonia Other geographical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Language
A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period hypothesis, critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' or ''mother tongue'' refers to the language of one's ethnic group rather than the individual's actual first language. Generally, to state a language as a mother tongue, one must have full native fluency in that language. The first language of a child is part of that child's personal, social and cultural identity. Another impact of the first language is that it brings about the reflection and learning of successful social patterns of acting and speaking. Research suggests that while a non-native speaker may develop fluency in a targeted language after about two years of immersion, it can take between five and seven years for that child to be on the same working level as their native speaking counterparts. On 17 November 1999, UNESCO design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Slavic Languages
The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches (West Slavic languages, West and East Slavic languages, East) by a belt of German language, German, Hungarian language, Hungarian and Romanian language, Romanian speakers. History The first South Slavic language to be written (also the first attested Slavic language) was the variety of the Eastern South Slavic spoken in Thessaloniki, now called Old Church Slavonic, in the ninth century. It is retained as a liturgical language in Slavic Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox churches in the form of various local Church Slavonic language, Church Slavonic traditions. Classification The South Slavic languages constitute a Dialect continuum#South Slavic continuum, dialect continuum. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin constitute a single dialect wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šuto Orizari Municipality
Šuto Orizari (; Balkan Romani: ''Shuto Orizari''; ), often shortened as ''Šutka'' (Шутка), is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. '' Šuto Orizari'' is also the name of the urban neighbourhood where the municipal seat is located. It consists of a council and mayor. Šuto Orizari covers 7.48 km² and had 17,357 inhabitants in 2002. It is the second smallest municipality of Skopje behind Čair and the least populated. Created ex-nihilo after the 1963 Skopje earthquake to relocate Romani people in North Macedonia who had lost their house, Šuto Orizari was the only municipality in North Macedonia with a Muslim Romani people majority. In 2002, they represented 60.6% of the population, and in 2021 they represented 43.8% of the population. Šuto Orizari is the only local administrative unit in the world to have adopted Balkan Romani as an official language. History For much of its history, Šuto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasilevo Municipality
Vasilevo (; ) is a municipality in the eastern part of North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n .... '' Vasilevo'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Vasilevo Municipality is part of the Southeastern Statistical Region. Demographics According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, this municipality has 10,552 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality include: Demographic Trends Live births by ethnic affiliation of mother, 2010-2021 The total number of students in the municipality in 2011, in comparison to the total number of students in 2007, increased for 4.4%. Vasilevo is the third municipality in North Macedonia by rise of the total number of students. Vasilevo has a higher concentration of Catholics (Eastern) than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plasnica Municipality
Plasnica (, ) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. '' Plasnica'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Plasnica Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region The Southwestern Statistical Region (; ) is one of eight statistical regions of North Macedonia. Southwestern, located in the western part of the country, sharing Ohrid Lake with its westerly border Albania. Internally, it borders the Pelagonia Sta .... It is particularly noteworthy in having a mostly ethnic Turkish population. Geography The municipality borders Makedonski Brod Municipality to the northeast, Kruševo Municipality to the southeast, Kičevo Municipality to the southwest, west and northwest. Demographics According to the 2021 North Macedonia census, this municipality has 4,222 inhabitants. References External links Official website {{Authority control Southwestern Statistical Region Municipalities of North Macedonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konče Municipality
Konče (; ) is a municipality in the eastern part of North Macedonia. ''Konče'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. This municipality is part of the Southeastern Statistical Region. Located below the slopes of Mount Serta, Konče is approximately 150 km away from the Skopje, North Macedonia's capital, on the Radovis-Strumica highway. The Municipality of Konce has a total area of 233.05 sq. Km and, as of the 2002 census, had a total population of 3,690 inhabitants. The ethnic composition of the Municipality of Konče's population consists primarily of Macedonians, but there is a significant Turkish minority. The current mayor of the Municipality of Konče is Blagoj Iliev. History There have been settlements in the region that constitutes the Konče municipality for more than four thousand years. Archaeological research done through the Museum of Štip conducted in the village of Gabrevci uncovered an early prehistoric community from the Bronz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karbinci Municipality
Karbinci (; ) is a municipality in the eastern part of North Macedonia. '' Karbinci'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is located. The Karbinci Municipality is part of the Eastern Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders the Probištip Municipality, Češinovo-Obleševo Municipality and Zrnovci Municipality to the north and east, and the Radoviš Municipality and Štip Municipality Štip ( ) is a municipality in eastern North Macedonia. '' Štip'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. This municipality is part of the Eastern Statistical Region. Geography Štip Municipality covers an area of 583.2 ... to the west and south. Demographics The 2021 North Macedonia census recorded 3,420 residents of the Karbinci Municipality. Ethnic groups in the municipality: Demographic Trends Live births by ethnic affiliation of mother, 2010-2021 Inhabited places The number of inhabited places in the municipality is 29. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centar Župa Municipality
Centar Župa (; ) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. ''Centar Župa'' is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Centar Župa Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. History After the Ottoman conquest in 1448, Kodžadžik was settled by Ottoman soldiers and Turkish nomads ( Yörüks). The local church was converted to a mosque, and Kodžadžik, as part of the ''sanjak'' (district) Debra-i Bala, became a center that connected the southeast with Albania and the Adriatic Sea. When North Macedonia proclaimed its independence in 1991, the Macedonian state implemented nationalist politics, which aimed to assimilate Macedonian Muslims into a broader category of "Macedonians". The government banned education in Turkish in all regions to "prevent Turkification". This, however, was met with resistance by Muslims who did not support the association and wanted to learn Turkish and continue their education in Turkish. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Commission
The Venice Commission, officially European Commission for Democracy through Law, is an advisory body of the Council of Europe, composed of independent experts in the field of constitutional law. It was created in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at a time of urgent need for constitutional assistance in Central and Eastern Europe. Creation The idea to create a Commission for Democracy through Law as a group of experts in constitutional law was conceived by the then Minister for Community Policies of Italy, Antonio Mario La Pergola. The election of the name was based on the theory of La Pergola that expressed that sustainable democracies could only be built in a constitutional framework based on the rule of law. The formal proposal for the creation of the commission was made by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gianni De Michelis, who invited the other Foreign Affairs ministers of the Council of Europe to the ''Conference for the Creation of the European Commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talat Xhaferi
Talat Xhaferi (; born 15 April 1962) is a Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of North Macedonia from January to June 2024. He previously served as the President of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia from 2017 to 2024 and as Minister of Defense from 2013 to 2014. He was the first ethnic Albanian to have served as prime minister since the independence and statehood of North Macedonia. Early life and military career Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanian, was born on 15 April 1962 in the village of Forino near Gostivar, PR Macedonia, FPR Yugoslavia. He attended primary school in the nearby village of Čegrane and continued his secondary education at the Military High School in Belgrade. He studied at the Military Academy of the Land Army Infantry of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in Belgrade and Sarajevo. Later in his career he specialized in command and staff duties at the General Mihailo Apostolski Military Academy in Skopje. In 2013, he obtained a master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
