Countries
Macedonia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
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
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
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
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Kilwa
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Not Available
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
macédonien
swahili
German Name
Makedonisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
2200 BC
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Swahili
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mace1250
swah1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Not Available
Macedonian and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Swahili language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.