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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Macedonia

Total No. Of Countries

71
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Albania, Romania, Serbia

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2631
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

926
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Danke
Благодарам (Blagodaram)

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

gute Nacht
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)

Good Evening

guten Abend
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Добар ден (Dobar den)

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)

Please

bitte
Ве молиме (Ve molime)

Sorry

Verzeihung
жал (žal)

Bye

Tschüs
Чао (Čao)

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Те сакам (Te sakam)

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.001.50
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Debar

Where They Speak

Germany
Macedonia

How Many People Speak

820,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Galičnik

Where They Speak

Texas
Macedonia

How Many People Speak

6,000.002,100,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2828
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million2.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.05 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million2.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic

French Name

allemand
macédonien

German Name

Deutsch
Makedonisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]

Ethnicity

Germans
Macedonians

History

Origin

6th Century AD
2200 BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Slavic

Branch

Western
Southern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Macedonian

Language Position

945
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Macedonian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
mk

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
mkd

ISO 639 2/B

ger
mac

ISO 639 3

deu
mkd

ISO 639 6

deus
mkd

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
mace1250

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-ha

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic

German and Macedonian Alphabets

German and Macedonian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Macedonian. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Macedonian Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn German and Macedonian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Macedonian languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Macedonian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Macedonian are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Macedonian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Macedonian dialects. Various dialects of German and Macedonian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Macedonian Dialects are spoken in different Macedonian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Macedonian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Macedonian dialects include: Torlakian , Debar. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Macedonian Speaking population

German and Macedonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Macedonian languages can be compared. The total count of German and Macedonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Macedonian language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Macedonian on German vs Macedonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Macedonian Language Codes

German and Macedonian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Macedonian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.