Countries
Macedonia
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-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)
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
goeie more
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
jammer
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
macédonien
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Analytic
  
Macedonian and Afrikaans Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Macedonian and Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Afrikaans language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Afrikaans Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Macedonian and Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.