Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== Eastern South Slavic (Bulgarian–Macedonian–Torlakian (Gorani)–Paulician (Banat)) ===
{{Further|Eastern South Slavic|Macedonian language#Relationship to Bulgarian|Bulgarian language#Relationship to Macedonian|Political views on the Macedonian language|Bulgarian dialects|Banat Bulgarian dialect}}
{{See also|Bulgarian nationalism| Bulgarian irredentism|Macedonian nationalism|Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union}}

Some linguists and scholars, mostly from [[Bulgaria]] and [[Greece]], but some also from other countries,<ref name="ucla">[http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?menu=004&LangID=42 Language profile Macedonian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311172655/http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=42&menu=004 |date=11 March 2009 }}, UCLA International Institute</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppbuavUZKEwC&pg=PA116 |title=Who are the Macedonians? |first=Hugh |last=Poulton |publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-85065-534-3 |page=116}}</ref> consider [[Eastern South Slavic]] to be a pluricentric language with four standards: [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] (based on the [[Rup dialects|Rup]], [[Balkan dialects of Bulgarian|Balkan]] and [[Moesian dialects|Moesian]] ("[[Yat#Bulgarian|Eastern Bulgarian]]") dialects), [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] (based on the [[Western Macedonian dialects|Western and Central Macedonian dialects]]), [[Gora dialect|Gorani]] (based on the [[Torlakian dialects]]), and [[Paulician dialect|Paulician]] (including [[Banat Bulgarian dialect|Banat Bulgarian]]).<ref name="Kamusella">{{Cite book |last=Kamusella |first=Tomasz |date= 17 June 2021|title=Politics and the Slavic Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUcrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT125 |location= |publisher= Routledge|page=125 |isbn= 9781000395990|access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref> Politicians and nationalists from Bulgaria are likely to refer to this entire grouping as 'Bulgarian', and to be particularly hostile to the notion that Macedonian is an autonomous language separate from Bulgarian, which [[North Macedonia|Macedonian]] politicians and citizens tend to claim.<ref name="Kamusella"/> As of 2021, the hypothesis that Eastern South Slavic, 'Greater Bulgarian', 'Bulgaro-Macedonian', or simply 'Bulgarian', is a pluricentric language with several mutually intelligible official standards in the same way that [[Serbo-Croatian]] is, and [[Czechoslovak language|Czechoslovak]] used to be,{{Clarify|date=May 2022|reason=Czech and Slovak languages are far less mutually intelligible than Serbo-Croatian varieties. Another is issue is that it says "used to be", would that imply they are not anymore?}} has not yet been fully developed in linguistics; it is a popular idea in Bulgarian politics, but an unpopular one in North Macedonia.<ref name="Kamusella"/>