Countries
Macedonia
  
Norway
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Norway
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
god morgen
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Sogn
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
5.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Norsk
  
French Name
macédonien
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Southern
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Fusional
  
Macedonian and Norwegian 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 Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Norwegian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Norwegian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Norwegian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Norwegian 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 Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks.