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Macedonian
Macedonian

Swahili
Swahili



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Macedonian and Swahili

Countries

Countries

Macedonia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Albania, Romania, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

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Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3124
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2621
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
Habari

Thank You

Благодарам (Blagodaram)
Asante

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Habari gani?

Good Night

Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Добар ден (Dobar den)
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Ве молиме (Ve molime)
tafadhali

Sorry

жал (žal)
pole

Bye

Чао (Čao)
bye

I Love You

Те сакам (Te sakam)
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Torlakian
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

1.5075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Debar
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Macedonia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

2,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Galičnik
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Macedonia
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

2,100,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

2.50 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.05 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

2.50 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

2.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

macédonien
swahili

German Name

Makedonisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Macedonians
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

2200 BC
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Southern
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Macedonian
Swahili

Language Position

4521
1 120
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Signed Forms

Macedonian Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

mk
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mkd
swa

ISO 639 2/B

mac
swa

ISO 639 3

mkd
swa

ISO 639 6

mkd
swa

Glottocode

mace1250
swah1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ha
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

Analytic
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Macedonian and Swahili Alphabets

Macedonian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Macedonian and Swahili. In Macedonian Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Macedonian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Macedonian and Swahili languages. The Macedonian phonology consist Macedonian vowels and Macedonian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Macedonian greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Macedonian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Macedonian and Swahili 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 Macedonian and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Macedonian and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Macedonian are spoken in different Macedonian Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Macedonian vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Macedonian dialects include: Torlakian, Debar. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Macedonian and Swahili Speaking population

Macedonian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Macedonian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Macedonian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Macedonian language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Macedonian and Swahili on Macedonian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Macedonian and Swahili Language Codes

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