Countries
Macedonia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
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 in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.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 (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)
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
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
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
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Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Standard Chinese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.