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Macedonian
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Countries

Countries

Macedonia

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Albania, Romania, Serbia

Regulated By

Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"

Interesting Facts

  • There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
  • The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.

Similar To

Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

31
Rank: 13 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

26
Rank: 16 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Благодарам (Blagodaram)

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)

Good Evening

Добра вечер (Dobra večer)

Good Afternoon

Добар ден (Dobar den)

Good Morning

Добро утро (Dobro utro)

Please

Ве молиме (Ve molime)

Sorry

жал (žal)

Bye

Чао (Čao)

I Love You

Те сакам (Te sakam)

Excuse Me

Извинете ме (Izvinete me)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Torlakian

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

1.50
Rank: 90 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Debar

Where They Speak

Macedonia

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.00
Rank: 55 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Galičnik

Where They Speak

Macedonia

How Many People Speak

2,100,000.00
Rank: 47 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

28
Rank: 23 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.50 million
Rank: 78 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.05 %
Rank: 59 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

2.50 million
Rank: 75 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million
Rank: 57 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)

Alternative Names

Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic

French Name

macédonien

German Name

Makedonisch

Pronunciation

[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]

Ethnicity

Macedonians

History

Origin

2200 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Southern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Macedonian

Language Position

45
Rank: 42 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Macedonian Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mk

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mkd

ISO 639 2/B

mac

ISO 639 3

mkd

ISO 639 6

mkd

Glottocode

mace1250

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ha

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic

Know Alphabets in Macedonian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Macedonian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Macedonian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Macedonian. Macedonian phonology gives Macedonian vowels and Macedonian consonants. There are 5 vowels and 26 consonants in Macedonian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Macedonian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Macedonian language is given in detail in this section.

All Macedonian countries

Want to explore all Macedonian countries? About Macedonian language serves you with all Macedonian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Macedonian as official language are called as Macedonian countries.

  • Countries that use Macedonian as their National Language are: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Macedonian as second language are: Macedonian is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Macedonian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Macedonian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Macedonian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Macedonian language.Learn Macedonian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Здраво (Zdravo)
  • Thank you: Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  • Good Morning: Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  • Good Evening: Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  • Good Afternoon: Добар ден (Dobar den)

All Macedonian Language Codes

Get to know all Macedonian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Macedonian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.