Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Macedonia
National Language
Germany
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
- 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, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
Alphabets in
German-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
Danke
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
guten Abend
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
bitte
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Verzeihung
жал (žal)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Debar
Where They Speak
Germany
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Texas German
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Texas
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Deutsch
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
allemand
macédonien
German Name
Deutsch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Germans
Macedonians
Origin
6th Century AD
2200 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Macedonian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed German
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
deus
Not Available
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
mace1250
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
53-AAA-ha
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic
German 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 German and Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Macedonian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common German Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Macedonian Difficulty
The German vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.