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ЈАЗИКОТ И ИДЕНТИТЕТОТ
The Language and the Identity

Author(s): Valentina Mironska Hristovska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Macedonian Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: identity; language; nation; Macedonian; revival

Summary/Abstract: Everyone become in the reality world with his one language. The language is our identity, because in every theory for identities, hay many they started from different perspectives, they all have one common determinant ñ the language. There for, UN introduced the initiative for waking and strengthens awareness for uniqueness and value for linguistic diversity and for perceiving the interdependence between language, culture and identity. For Macedonian people, specifically in 19 century, the Macedonian language was an authentic product of the national spirit and most important constituent of the Macedonian nation, as the other nations. The different between the Macedonia intellectuals, revivals and the others nations was that that the fait for Macedonian language was at the same time and fait for freedom, for autonomy, for renewal of the Ohrid Archbishopric i.e. the Macedonian Orthodox Church, for Macedonian nation and Macedonian identity. With their activities they had done a lot. They had open the way Macedonian common language to be came in Macedonian literature language. There for we have to keep, cherish and respect our language because with it we keep our culture, our history and memory, our name and identity.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 117-126
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Macedonian
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