Countries
Macedonia
  
European Union, Latvia
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Latvia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Latvian State Language Center
  
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.
  
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Lithuanian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
Paldies
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Kā jums klājas?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Ar labunakti
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Labvakar
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Labdien
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Labrīt
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
lūdzu
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
Piedodiet!
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Uz redzēšanos
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Es tevi mīlu
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Piedodiet!
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Livonian
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Latvia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Middle Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Latvia
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
High Latvian
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
France, Latvia
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
1.75 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
1.75 million
  
99+
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
latviešu valoda
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Lettish
  
French Name
macédonien
  
letton
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Lettisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Latvians or Letts
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
1530
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Baltic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Latvian
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Latvian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
lv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
lav
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
lav
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
lav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
latv1249
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
54-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Synthetic
  
Macedonian and Latvian 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 Latvian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Latvian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Latvian word for "Thank You" is Paldies. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Latvian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Latvian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Latvian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Latvian 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 Latvian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Latvian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Latvian time required is 44 weeks.