Countries
Macedonia
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
bok
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
hvala
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
kako si
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
laku noć
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
dobar dan
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
dobro jutro
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
molim
Sorry
жал (žal)
Oprostite
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Volim te
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Croatia
Dialect 2
Debar
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Croatia
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Hrvatski
French Name
macédonien
croate
German Name
Makedonisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Croats
Origin
2200 BC
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
mace1250
croa1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic
Macedonian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Croatian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.