Countries
Macedonia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3124
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2617
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
жал (žal)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Чао (Čao)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Greece
How Many People Speak
1.502,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Debar
Griko
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Italy
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Galičnik
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
2,100,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2825
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
2.50 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
macédonien
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Makedonisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
2200 BC
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Hellenic
Branch
Southern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Modern Greek
Language Position
4574
1
120
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Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mk
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
ell
ISO 639 2/B
mac
gre
ISO 639 3
mkd
ell
ISO 639 6
mkd
ells
Glottocode
mace1250
gree1276
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic