Countries
Macedonia
  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
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.
  
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
سلام
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
متشکرم
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
چطور هستید?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
شب بخیر
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
عصر بخیر
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
صبح به خیر
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
لطفا
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
متاسف
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
خدا حافظ
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
من شما را دوست دارم
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
ببخشيد!
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Western Persian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Iran, Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Dari Persian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Afganistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
12,500,000.00
  
7
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Tajik Persian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
7,900,000.00
  
6
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
26
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
65.00 million
  
17
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
فارسی
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
French Name
macédonien
  
persan
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Persisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Persian people
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Southern
  
Iranian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Persian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Persian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
fa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
fas
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
per
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
pes
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
fars1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
58-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Synthetic