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Macedonian is a South Slavic language, the official language of the Republic of Macedonia.  Historically, geographic Macedonia also included areas of Bulgaria and Greece and some villages in Albania.  The use of the Macedonian language is currently forbidden or restricted in some of those countries.  Although Macedonia has a long cultural and literary tradition, it was not until the twentieth century, in 1944, that the Macedonian literary language was codified.

The University of Toronto is one of the very few universities in North America and the only one in Canada to offer courses in the Macedonian literary language.  Students with no background in Slavic languages are welcome, as are those who have knowledge of Macedonian but do not know the literary language. 

Students of Slavic languages will find the study of Macedonian of great interest since, while related to other, more frequently studied languages, it is quite different syntactically, for example, in its loss of cases, lack of an infinitive, and the preservation of numerous verbal tenses.