1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Albania, Romania, Serbia
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Dutch Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
Dankie
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Како си? (Kako si?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Добар ден (Dobar den)
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
asseblief
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Те сакам (Te sakam)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Torlakian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Debar
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Galičnik
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
19.00 million2.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million2.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Macedonian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Macedonian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology