Theoretically, due to many linguistic similarities, the Macedonian people could build their literary language together with the Bulgarian people (or they could just accept Bulgarian standard). Macedonians could also build their literary language together with the Serbian people (or simply accept the Serbian standard), due to many rich cultural and linguistic interactions which have lasted for centuries, into this day. But historical circumstances in the Vardar Macedonia have paved the third way to Macedonian people, and enabled them to establish their own state and to build their own literary language on the basis of one of the Macedonian dialects. The Macedonian central dialect is distanced from both the Bulgarian and Serbian dialectal centers and has its own special linguistic features.