Parteniy Zografski

“ Not only that the Macedonian dialect should not and cannot be excluded from the common standard language, but it would have been good if it was accepted as its main constituent; since it sounds fuller, smoother and stronger, and in many respects it is more complete and rich. ”

“ Мисли за болгарскиот язик - Партения Зографски - 1858 We have already said this before, and we are saying it again, in order to create one common standard language first we need to study and publicize all local dialects and idioms of our language, so we can build our common language on top of all of them. Until this is done, no one can, and does not have right to determine and create a common standard (literary) language based on just one dialect, whatever that one dialect may be. Any such determination and creation, if it is not all inclusive, will be vain and fruitless. ”

“ The first one is quite well known; since all that is written in our language up to now, was written in it, and in the other one not even a single bit, owing to the fact that the revival of our literacy started from the top down [3] This is the reason that not very many foreign linguists, but not very many of our linguists for whom the Macedonian dialect is not native as well, know it and have a defined opinion about it. To promote to the world the Macedonian dialect with all its general and local idioms, as much as we can, we intend to create a Grammar for it, in parallel with the other one ”