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While it is often claimed that Standard Macedonian was codified on the base of those dialects ( i. e. the Prilep-Bitola dialect ) which were most unlike Bulgarian, this interpretation stems from the works of Krste Misirkov who suggested that Standard Macedonian should abstract on those dialects " most distinct from the standards of the other Slavonic languages ".

Likewise, this view does not take into account the fact that a Macedonian koiné language was already in existence.

The codifiers ultimately chose the same dialects, but did so because they were " most widespread and most likely to be adopted by speakers of other dialects ".