Balizs, D. (2021). Context of the linguistic landscape and social processes in North Macedonia. Modern Geográfia, 16(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.15170/MG.2021.16.02.01
A country in the Western Balkans, with which all its neighbours have some problems, whose society is extremely divided ethnically and politically, suffered by intensive emigration now and a civil war a few years ago and which signs agreements on its internal affairs and even changes its name – is called North Macedonia. The tension between Macedonians, who make up barely two-thirds of the population and the rapidly growing Albanian minority will lead to the emergence of parallel societies. Otherwise, the expansion of Albanians is spectacular in all areas of everyday life. The Macedonian community experiences that everyone else (the Albanian minority, neighbouring countries, the European Union or NATO) has more impact on the affairs of the Macedonian State than he has. In this study, I am going to present the recent transformation of the Macedonian political and economic situation with an effective method, the survey of the linguistic landscape.
Keywords: linguistic landscape, North Macedonia, ethnicity, politics, economy