Countries
Macedonia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Olonets
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mace1250
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Fusional, Synthetic
Macedonian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Russian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Russian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.