Macedonian language
The Macedonian language also showed a special development in relation to nasal consonants. Here the vocalization of the hard sign appeared and the change of nasal consonants are chronologically and as a result separate phenomena. At the same time, it was only in the Macedonian language that Ѧ was equated with Ѣ, after the loss of the nasal consonant, so that in the texts from the 12th century and the 13th century there were examples such as: пѦтель for пѢтель, сѢмѢ for сѢмѦ, etc. In other words, this development went like this: Ѧ > Ѣ (ä)> is. In some West Macedonian dialects, especially in Pogradec and Gorica in Albania, the pronunciation with ä is still preserved, so we have: рʲäka for river.