Summary

Portrait of Georgi Pulevski Georgi Pulevski Translation: Dictionary of three languages

They are Russian, Croat, Bosnian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
Question
What of the languages mentioned here are similar to each other?
Response
The Russian and the Bulgarian are the most similar. On the other hand the the Croatian, the Bosnian and the Macedonian are also very similar.
Question
If the Macedonian language is so similar to the Bosnian, why is it named Macedonian
Response
Because the Macedonian language is the most similar with the language of the Church Slavonic book, the Church-Slavonic language.
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Portrait of Georgi Pulevski Georgi Pulevski Translation: Dictionary of three languages

Page:Тријазичник, Ѓорѓиіа Пулевски.pdf/7
I wrote this dictionary in the Macedonian language, since in our area the Bulgarian language is not understood. But this language has its own dialect miyak, which means pure speech, and which is the language on which the church books were translated from Greek by St. Cyril and Methodius for our people.
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