Macedonian Language Day () is a

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, observed annually on 5 May. On that day in 1945, the government of Yugoslav Macedonia adopted the

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as the official script of the republic. Two months later, on 7 June, the Ministry of Education approved the first

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and thus codified the

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. The date was declared Macedonian Language Day at a government session held on 16 April 2019.

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