Countries
South Africa
Macedonia
National Language
South Africa
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
Similar To
Dutch Language
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
hallo
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Dankie
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
goeie nag
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
goeie more
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
asseblief
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Bye
Not Available
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Debar
Where They Speak
Not Available
Macedonia
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Namibia
Macedonia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Afrikaans
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
afrikaans
macédonien
German Name
Afrikaans
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
Macedonians
Origin
17th Century
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Macedonian
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
mace1250
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
53-AAA-ha
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Analytic
Afrikaans and Macedonian 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 Afrikaans and Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Macedonian language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans Alphabets and Macedonian 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 Afrikaans and Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.