Countries
Macedonia
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Finland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
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Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Suomi
  
French Name
macédonien
  
finnois
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
1543
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Southern
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
finn1318
  
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, Synthetic
  
Macedonian and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Finnish language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.