The Alphabet of Discord

5 I employ this term in a neutral way to identify the Slavic-speaking communities present in Greek territories in that period.

6 Cit. in Kuševski 1983: 187.

7 Cited in the preface to the third edition of the Abecedar in 2006.

8 Cited document: United Nations Library and Archive Geneva, R. 1975, Doc. No. 41/47674/39349

9 Guentcheva notes: “Though the commission of linguists and writers recommended simplification of the graphic system, the majority of the intelligentsia in Bulgaria insisted on retaining the visual distance between Bulgarian and Serbian through orthography” (ibid.).

10 Examples of this are the destruction of the written heritage in Arabic characters in Bulgaria, both in the first years of independence and during the assimilationist campaigns in the last years of communism (consisting of gravestones in Arabic or Turkish characters, school registers, documents in Turkish), the destruction of the written heritage in arebica in Bosnia during the war by the Bosnian Serbs and the campaigns against the Cyrillic script in Vukovar, as we will see in chapter 8.

11 Those in Greece, in the Republic of North Macedonia and in the world diaspora.

12 The Abecedar has been reissued two times since 1925, first in 1993 by the Macedonian Information Center in Australia and then in 2006, in Thessaloniki, at the initiative of the Macedonian ethnic (Slavic) political party, Rainbow. In line with the principles of its political platform, the Rainbow Party states that the Abecedar constitutes one of a series of official Greek documents that distinguished Macedonian identity from Greek identity well before 1945.

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