Countries
Macedonia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
German and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Hallo
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
dankjewel
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
goedemorgen
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
alsjeblieft
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
pardon
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Gronings
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Netherlands
Dialect 2
Debar
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
macédonien
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Makedonisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Dutch people
Origin
2200 BC
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Standard Dutch
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mace1250
mode1257
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Synthetic
Macedonian and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Dutch language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Dutch Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Dutch 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 Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.