German

Polish

German and Polish

German

Polish

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

European Union, Poland

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

Poland

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

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

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

Interesting Facts

One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2632

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

109

0 32

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How Many Consonants

923

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

cześć

Thank You

Danke

dziękuję

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

Jak się masz?

Good Night

gute Nacht

dobranoc

Good Evening

guten Abend

dobry wieczór

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

dzień dobry

Good Morning

guten Morgen

Dzień dobry

Please

bitte

proszę

Sorry

Verzeihung

Przepraszam

Bye

Tschüs

do widzenia

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

kocham Cię

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

przepraszam

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Kashubian

Where They Speak

Switzerland

Poland

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00108,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Masovian

Where They Speak

Germany

Poland

How Many People Speak

820,000.0045,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Silesian

Where They Speak

Texas

Czech Republic, Poland

How Many People Speak

6,000.00510,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

2834

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million40.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.61 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million40.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million40.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

Polski

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

Polnisch, Polski

French Name

allemand

polonais

German Name

Deutsch

Polnisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[ˈpɔlski]

Ethnicity

Germans

Poles

History

Origin

6th Century AD

1270

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Slavic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Polish

Language Position

924

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

pol

ISO 639 2/B

ger

pol

ISO 639 3

deu

pol

ISO 639 6

deus

pols

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

poli1260

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

53-AAA-cc

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

German and Polish Alphabets

German and Polish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Polish. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Polish Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn German and Polish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Polish languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Polish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Polish are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Polish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Polish dialects. Various dialects of German and Polish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Polish Dialects are spoken in different Polish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Polish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Polish dialects include: Kashubian , Masovian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Polish Speaking population

German and Polish speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Polish languages can be compared. The total count of German and Polish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Polish on German vs Polish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Polish Language Codes

German and Polish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Polish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.