Countries
Macedonia
  
Estonia, European Union
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Estonia, Gambia
  
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
  
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
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.
  
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Finnish
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Tere
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
aitäh
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
kuidas sul läheb
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Head ööd
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Tere õhtust
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Tere päevast
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Tere hommikust
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Palun
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
Vabandust
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Head aega
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
ma armastan sind
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Vabandage
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Keskmurre
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Tartu
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Idamurre
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
1.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
0.95 million
  
99+
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
eesti keel
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Eesti keel
  
French Name
macédonien
  
estonien
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Estnisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Estonians
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Southern
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Estonian
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Estonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
est
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
esto1258
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Agglutinative
  
Macedonian and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Estonian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Estonian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Estonian 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 Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.