Countries
Macedonia
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
您好
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
早上好
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
请
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
遗憾
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
再见
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
macédonien
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Not Available
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
cant1236
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Macedonian and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Cantonese language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.