Countries
Macedonia
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Nepal
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
macédonien
  
népalais
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southern
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Agglutinative