Countries
Macedonia
  
Georgia
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Cabinet of Georgia
  
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.
  
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Kartlian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Kartli
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Pshavian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Pshavi
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
ქართული ენა
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
French Name
macédonien
  
géorgien
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Georgisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Georgians
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
5th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Kartvelian Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Southern
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Modern Georgian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
ka
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
kat
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
geo
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
kat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
nucl1302
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic