Countries
Macedonia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3133
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2621
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
жал (žal)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Чао (Čao)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
1.5030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Debar
Olonets
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Galičnik
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
2,100,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2813
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
2.50 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Русский
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Russki
French Name
macédonien
russe
German Name
Makedonisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Russians
Origin
2200 BC
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Southern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Standard Russian
Language Position
457
1
120
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Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mk
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
rus
ISO 639 2/B
mac
rus
ISO 639 3
mkd
rus
ISO 639 6
mkd
rus
Glottocode
mace1250
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic