The Macedonian alphabet

31 letters, each with its name and roughly the sound it makes. The sounds are English approximations — enough to sound a word out, not enough to pass for a local.

🇲🇰 Cyrillic · An alphabet: vowels and consonants are letters of equal standing.

Thirty-one letters. Macedonian adds Ѓ, Ќ, Ѕ, Љ, Њ and Џ, and writes every sound with one letter — there are no digraphs and no silent letters, so a word is said exactly as it is spelled.

• А а a a in father
• Б б be b
• В в ve v
• Г г ge g
• Д д de d
• Ѓ ѓ gje soft g, close to j in jury
• Е е e e in bet
• Ж ж zhe s in measure
• З з ze z
• Ѕ ѕ dze ds in adds
• И и i ee in see
• Ј ј je y in yes
• К к ka k
• Л л el l
• Љ љ lje lli in million
• М м em m
• Н н en n
• Њ њ nje ni in onion
• О о o o in more
• П п pe p
• Р р er rolled r
• С с es s
• Т т te t
• Ќ ќ kje soft k, close to ch
• У у u oo in boot
• Ф ф ef f
• Х х ha h
• Ц ц tse ts in cats
• Ч ч che ch in chair
• Џ џ dzhe j in jam
• Ш ш sha sh

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The letters are the smaller half. The 10,000 commonest Macedonian words are where they start meaning something.

Cyrillic is also used for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. The letters mostly carry over; a handful do not.

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