Makedonski Jazik - Macedonian Language

[Risto the Great]

What a beautiful Macedonian dialect!

YouTube - Dialect from Suho Aegean Macedonia

I found it interesting.
Certainly not foreign ... kind of "choppy" but nevertheless sweet sounding.

[Soldier of Macedon]

I am positive this is French.

Spanish, Portuguese and French all use a similar word to this, but Polish, Slovak, Ukranian, etc all use the same word too, they were never under French influence. You could be right, I am not sure, but how do you propose the same word was spread to all of the Slavic languages given that most if not all other marine terms are native?

For the record, I seldom use Plazha myself, I would generally say "ke oime na more" rather than "na plazha".

[MapleLeaf1]

How about the most Macedonian word for beach, BEACHOT

[Soldier of Macedon]

Chupeto kalesho go kandisal da doi oti e bendisal nogu, bara da si oi na pravio pat i poikje ne se udisa so tie sho prat pakosi.

Чупето калешо го кандисал да дои оти е бендисал ногу, бара да си ои на правио пат и поиќе не се удиса со тие шо прат пакоси.

I took most of the above words from the unique Macedonian words thread and created a sentence to reference it against Serbian and Bulgarian in google translate. Neither of them came near comprehension, any speaker of the other Slavic tongues would be lost if the above was said to them.

[Risto the Great]

No chance to decipher that SoM.
There are over 40 distinct languages (not dialects) in Ghana. And we Macedonians have to continually put up with slurs against our identity from the wolves that are our neighbours. Tiresome.

[Soldier of Macedon]

RtG, do you guys use the word 'otsku' for a 'little' or 'small' amount, and the word 'kotskando' in the following way: "Glei kostkando bebeto" (Look [at] the little baby)?

[Risto the Great]

"kotsku" is definitely used the same way. I have not really heard your other variations but have never professed to be an expert on these matters.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Can you put it in a sentence?

[Risto the Great]

I don't know .... but tend to think of it referring to something "samo kotsku" meaning "only this small".

[Soldier of Macedon]

Here is how I would use them:

Glei kotsku mi dava - Look how little he is giving me
Otsku mi dade - Little he gave me (Or "This much he gave me", usually said with a hand gesture accompanied that indicates a small amount)

[Risto the Great]

ha ha .... I was going to say hand gestures were an important part of using that work!

[George S.]

There is the usage & abusage in everyday speech people add things & meanings change over time.where one thinks its one meaning it becomes another.
George S.

[King Makedon]

Here is how I would use them:

Glei kotsku mi dava - Look how little he is giving me
Otsku mi dade - Little he gave me (Or "This much he gave me", usually said with a hand gesture accompanied that indicates a small amount)

kotsku???

i know it as kolkicku.


it is a deminutive of kolku/ kolkav/ kolkava/ kolkavo

vidi go kolkicav e maliov.
vidi ja kolkicava e malava
kolkicku - tolkichku (kolku? - tolku!)


I also never heard of ganzaj

we use "shunjaj" instead

ne se shunjaj be
or
ne se vlechkaj be
or
sho se shunjash (vlechkash) ti be?

[King Makedon]

A lot of slang words are taken from serbia/turkey.
like
kezenje- loughing smeenje
kenjanje- shitting serenje/kakanje
kenef - WC VC/ nuzhnik /klozet
cipeli - shoes chevli
papuchi - slipper vlechki / pandufi
tanjir - dish chinija

[osiris]

hey risto there are a few different dialects within lerinsko and some of the dialects from lerinsko and bitolsko are in fact identical. the people in sveta petka bitusha kbasnitsa rako opsirina and a few others speak exactly the same as the villages in the republic from dragosh to bukovo excluding bukovo places like lazhets velushhina graeshnitsa kanina and so on, confirming beyond any shadow of doubt that our national identity is the same.