Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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
Chinese Language
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
晚安
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
请
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
再见
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
我爱你
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Macedonia
  
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
Not Available
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
17th century
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Macedonian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
cant1236
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Macedonian language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.