Countries
Macedonia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
sorry
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Netherlands
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
macédonien
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Synthetic