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Originally Posted by Awar
It's also the same with Serbian regions which are near Macedonia, and also mutually intelligible with most Serbian dialects.  |
It is not exactly the same. I could also understand some serbian but it doesn't make it bulgarian. All slavonic languages are related, thats the definition of linguistic group. Macedonian dialect simply lacks the requisite linguistic attributes to be accepted as different tongue from the bulgarian. Also modern macedonian had absorbed plenty of serbian, croatian, slovenian, i.e. yugoslavian words during the days they were part of one state.