Language code: mk
Technical information about ISO 639 language code mk
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The table below provides technical details for the Macedonian language, designated by the mk code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| 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 | |
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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
*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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- Reports and Statistics
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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
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- Supported file formats
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ