Countries
Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
жал (žal)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
Чао (Čao)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Torlakian
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Debar
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Serbia
Dialect 3
Galičnik
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Macedonia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
Montenegrin
French Name
macédonien
serbe
German Name
Makedonisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Macedonians
Serbs
Origin
2200 BC
11th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Southern
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Macedonian
Standard Serbian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
mace1250
serb1264
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
Not Available
Macedonian and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Serbian language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Serbian word for "Thank You" is Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo). Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Serbian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Serbian Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Serbian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian Alphabets and Serbian 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 Serbian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Serbian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Serbian time required is 44 weeks.