ROMANISATION OF MACEDONIAN

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The 'Romanisation of Macedonian' is the transliteration of text in the Macedonian language from the Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet.
Whilst transliteration into the Latin script is easy in principle, there is currently much confusion about which standard to use. For example, the Cyrillic letter ''ж'' was always written as ''ž''. In recent times however, the use of "zh" or simply "z" has gained currency. Equally problematic may be the Cyrillic letter ''џ'', which can be found transliterated into Latin as ''dž, dzh, dz'' or occasionally ''x''.
Traditionally, Macedonian Romanization was heavily influenced by the Serbo-Croat chapter in its history. Because Macedonian is almost exclusively written in Cyrillic, there has been little need for routine transliteration. Although Macedonian was a recognised as a separate language in post-war Yugoslavia, the majority of dual-alphabet road signs remain which use the old Serbo-Croatian system of Romanization using the special characters ''c, č, ć, đ, dž, h, j, lj, nj, š, ž'' as well as the exceptional ''dz'', so road signs point to ''Štip'', ''Kočani'', ''Medžitlija'', ''Ćafa San'', ''Sveti Đorđe'', ''Ohrid'' and the like. All were installed before Macedonian independence.
Since 1991, as measures have been taken to further distance the literary language from its Serbo-Croatian influenced past, there have been some alterations with the transliterations themselves: ''ќ'' has doubled to represent itself in Latinic since its appearance consisting of one of the 26 standard letters with an accute diacritic makes it a perfectly legitimate Roman character, but for practical reasons, it may instead be "kj" (this causes little if any confusion). Its voiced counterpart "ѓ" may also be found in the shape of "Gj", and "Lj" sometimes appears as "ĺ".

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★ Macedonian alphabet

★ Macedonian language

★ Romanisation