The period between 1840 and 1870, saw a struggle to define the dialectal base of the common language called simply "Bulgarian", with two opposing views emerging. One ideology was to create a Bulgarian literary language based on Macedonian dialects, but such proposals were rejected by the Bulgarian codifiers. That period saw poetry written in the Struga dialect with elements from Russian. Textbooks also used either spoken dialectal forms of the language or a mixed Macedo-Bulgarian language. Subsequently, proponents of the idea of using a separate Macedonian language emerged.
The period between 1840 and 1870 saw a struggle to define the dialectal base of the common language called simply "Bulgarian" with two opposing views emerging One ideology was to create a Bulgarian literary language based on Macedonian dialects but such proposals were rejected by the Bulgarian codifiers That period saw poetry written in the Struga dialect with elements from Russian Textbooks also used either spoken dialectal forms of the language or a mixed Macedo-Bulgarian language Subsequently proponents of the idea of using a separate Macedonian language emerged