Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3331
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2126
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
жал (žal)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
30,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Debar
Where They Speak
Olonets
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1328
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Russki
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
russe
macédonien
German Name
Russisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Russians
Macedonians
Origin
1000 AD
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Macedonian
Language Position
745
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
rus
mac
ISO 639 3
rus
mkd
ISO 639 6
rus
mkd
Glottocode
russ1263
mace1250
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic