Countries
Macedonia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3157
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2650
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Sawubona
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
unjani
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
жал (žal)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Чао (Čao)
bye
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1.5028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Debar
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Galičnik
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
2,100,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
284
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
2.50 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
macédonien
zoulou
German Name
Makedonisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Zulu people
Origin
2200 BC
19
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southern
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
4587
1
120
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Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mk
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
zul
ISO 639 2/B
mac
zul
ISO 639 3
mkd
zul
ISO 639 6
mkd
zul
Glottocode
mace1250
zulu1248
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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