Countries
Macedonia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
bok
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
molim
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
macédonien
  
croate
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Croats
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Macedonian and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Croatian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Croatian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.