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
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Sogn
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Hallingdal, Valdres
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
Branch
Southern
Northern (Scandinavian)
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mace1250
norw1258
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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.