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
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Macedonia
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
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
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
ru
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
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.