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
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3153
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2643
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
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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)
Molo
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Unjani
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Molo
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Ndicela
Sorry
жал (žal)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Чао (Čao)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1.5019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Debar
Thembu
Where They Speak
Macedonia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Galičnik
Hlubi
Where They Speak
Macedonia
South Africa
How Many People Speak
2,100,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
289
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
2.50 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
2.50 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
macédonien
xhosa
German Name
Makedonisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
2200 BC
16th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Southern
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Macedonian
isiXhosa
Language Position
4521
1
120
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Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mk
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
xho
ISO 639 2/B
mac
xho
ISO 639 3
mkd
xho
ISO 639 6
mkd
xho
Glottocode
mace1250
xhos1239
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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