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{{Short description|Variety of Macedonian}}
'''Spoken Macedonian'''<ref>Конески, Б. „За македонскиот литературен јазик“, стр. 132.</ref> ({{langx|mk|разговорен македонски јазик|razgovoren makedonski jazik}}) is the [[Spoken language|spoken]] [[Variety (linguistics)|variety]] of the [[Standard Macedonian|standard Macedonian language]]. Spoken Macedonian can also refer to the spoken, colloquial [[Register (sociolinguistics)|register]] of a local [[dialect]]. This code is typical of the speech of the [[Macedonian diaspora]], especially of the descendants of those who went abroad prior to the [[Codification (linguistics)|codification]] of the [[Standard Macedonian|standard language]] in the 1940s, ethnic [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonians]] in the wider region of [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], and [[rural]] areas of [[North Macedonia]]. Spoken Macedonian is more inclusive of [[Loanword|foreign elements]] that have become obsolete in the written standard.

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