Countries
Macedonia
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Hawaii
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
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Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
谢谢
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
晚安
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
下午好
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
早上好
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
请
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
outside mainland China
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Hong Kong
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
macédonien
cantonais
German Name
Makedonisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Han Chinese
Origin
2200 BC
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
ISO 639 1
mk
No data available
ISO 639 3
mkd
No data available
Glottocode
mace1250
cant1236
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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Macedonian and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Macedonian and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Cantonese language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Macedonian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.