Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Macedonia
National Language
Russia
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
жал (žal)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Where They Speak
Olonets
Macedonia
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Macedonia
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Russki
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
russe
macédonien
German Name
Russisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Russians
Macedonians
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Macedonian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
mace1250
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-ha
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic
Russian and Macedonian 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 Russian and Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Macedonian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Russian vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Macedonian 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 Russian and Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.