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Language code: mkd

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mkd

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The table below provides technical details for the Macedonian language, designated by the mkd code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

mkd (Terminology)

Name

Official

Macedonian

Native

Македонски

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Western MacedonianEastern Macedonian
Related languages
BulgarianSerbianBosnianCroatianSlovene
Key facts
Alphabet contains 31 Cyrillic letters standardized in 1945Definite article is not a separate word but a suffix that can signal distance (general, near, far)Verb system marks evidentiality, allowing speakers to indicate source of informationWord stress is usually fixed on the ante-penultimate syllable in polysyllabic wordsEarliest modern linguistic description was Krste Misirkov’s 1903 work “On Macedonian Matters.”
Sample phrase

Здраво, како си?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Macedonian language, identified by the code mkd, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

The ISO 639-2 standard offers two codes for the Macedonian language: mkd for terminology purposes and mac for bibliographic uses.

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