Countries
Macedonia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
macédonien
  
allemand
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Germans
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional, Synthetic