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Originally Posted by Zrinski
Also Macedonian is cross between Bulgarian and Serbian.
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'Cross' is not the proper word.
Once again, 'macedonian' is a bulgarian dialect that had absorbed plenty of yugoslav words at the expense of the 'old-fashioned' bulgarian ones, when macedonians were part of the yugoslav federation. That was a purposive intentional process of anti-bulgarization conducted by the yugoslav government and eased by the nihilist communist leadership of Bulgaria for nearly half a century (1944-89).
Of course just like bulgarian and serbian are close and almost intellgible one to the other, the bulgarian macedonian dialect is also close and intelligible to the serbian. Also I believe that the Sofian bulgarian dialect (about Sofia district) is closer to serbian than the original non-"modernized" pre-yugoslav macedonian is.