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Macedonian vs Chinese


Chinese vs Macedonian


Countries

Countries
Macedonia  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
5  
10

National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
China, Taiwan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Republic of Brazil  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia  
Indonesia, Malaysia  

Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  

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.
  
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  

Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Chinese.jpg#200  

Alphabets
31  
13
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
24  
19

How Many Consonants
26  
16
23  
13

Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille  
Chinese Characters and derivatives  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)  
您好 (Nín hǎo)  

Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  

How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  

Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  

Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  

Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  

Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)  
早安 (Zǎo ān)  

Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)  
请 (Qǐng)  

Sorry
жал (žal)  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  

Bye
Чао (Čao)  
再见 (Zàijiàn)  

I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  

Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)  
劳驾 (Láojià)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Torlakian  
Mandarin  

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  

How Many People Speak
1.50  
99+
960,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 2
Debar  
Wu  

Where They Speak
Macedonia  
China, United States of America  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
80,000,000.00  
1

Dialect 3
Galičnik  
Yue  

Where They Speak
Macedonia  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
60,000,000.00  
2

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
2.50 million  
99+
1,051.00 million  
2

Speaking Population
Not Available  
16.00 %  
2

Native Speakers
2.50 million  
99+
873.00 million  
1

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
178.00 million  
3

Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)  
中文 (zhōngwén)  

Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic  
Not Available  

French Name
macédonien  
chinois  

German Name
Makedonisch  
Chinesisch  

Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Macedonians  
Han  

History

Origin
2200 BC  
1250 BC  

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 Chinese  

Language Position
Not Available  
1  
1

Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
mk  
zh  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mkd  
zho  

ISO 639 2/B
mac  
chi  

ISO 639 3
mkd  
zho  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mace1250  
sini1245  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha  
79-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Macedonian and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Macedonian vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Macedonian and Chinese language. History of Macedonian language states that this language originated in 2200 BC whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Macedonian and Chinese Language History.

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Macedonian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Chinese language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Macedonian vs Chinese Difficulty

The Macedonian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.

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