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Countries

Countries

European Union, Poland

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

Poland

Second Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

Interesting Facts

  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.

Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

cześć

Thank You

dziękuję

How Are You?

Jak się masz?

Good Night

dobranoc

Good Evening

dobry wieczór

Good Afternoon

dzień dobry

Good Morning

Dzień dobry

Please

proszę

Sorry

Przepraszam

Bye

do widzenia

I Love You

kocham Cię

Excuse Me

przepraszam

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kashubian

Where They Speak

Poland

How Many People Speak

108,000.00
Rank: 77 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Masovian

Where They Speak

Poland

How Many People Speak

45,000,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Silesian

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland

How Many People Speak

510,000.00
Rank: 59 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

34
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

40.00 million
Rank: 31 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.61 %
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

40.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

Polski

Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski

French Name

polonais

German Name

Polnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]

Ethnicity

Poles

History

Origin

1270

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish

Standard Forms

Polish

Language Position

24
Rank: 22 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

pl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pol

ISO 639 2/B

pol

ISO 639 3

pol

ISO 639 6

pols

Glottocode

poli1260

Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Polish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Polish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Polish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Polish. Polish phonology gives Polish vowels and Polish consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Polish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Polish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Polish language is given in detail in this section.

All Polish countries

Want to explore all Polish countries? About Polish language serves you with all Polish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Polish as official language are called as Polish countries.

  • Countries that use Polish as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Polish as second language are: .

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Learn Polish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Polish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Polish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Polish language.Learn Polish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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  • Thank you:
  • Good Morning:
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon:

All Polish Language Codes

Get to know all Polish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Polish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.