Language code: mk

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mk

The table below provides technical details for the Macedonian language, designated by the mk code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

mk

Name

Official

Macedonian

Native

Македонски

Family
South Slavic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western MacedonianNorthern MacedonianEastern Macedonian
Related languages
BulgarianSerbianBosnianCroatianSlovenian
Key facts
Uses a 31-letter Cyrillic alphabet standardized in 1945Definite articles are post-posed suffixes indicating proximity (unspecified, near, far)Noun cases are largely lost, replaced by analytic prepositionsEmploys clitic doubling of objects for emphasis or clarityStandard Macedonian is primarily based on the Prilep–Bitola dialect continuum
Sample phrase

Здраво, како си?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Macedonian belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the South Slavic subgroup. It is one of the official languages in North Macedonia and is also used by Macedonian minority groups in Albania and Serbia. It is written using the Cyrillic script (Macedonian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 1.6 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Macedonian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

mk-MK Macedonian (North Macedonia)

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