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Countries

Countries

European Union, Poland
Czech Republic, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Poland
Czech Republic

Second Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia

Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Institute of the Czech Language

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.
  • The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
  • In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.

Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3242
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

932
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2332
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

cześć
ahoj

Thank You

dziękuję
děkuji

How Are You?

Jak się masz?
Jak se máš?

Good Night

dobranoc
dobrou noc

Good Evening

dobry wieczór
dobrý večer

Good Afternoon

dzień dobry
dobré odpoledne

Good Morning

Dzień dobry
dobré ráno

Please

proszę
prosím

Sorry

Przepraszam
litovat

Bye

do widzenia
sbohem

I Love You

kocham Cię
Miluji tě

Excuse Me

przepraszam
promiňte

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kashubian
Chod

Where They Speak

Poland
Chodsko, Bohemia

How Many People Speak

108,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Masovian
Lach

Where They Speak

Poland
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia

How Many People Speak

45,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Silesian
Moravian

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia

How Many People Speak

510,000.00108,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3413
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

40.00 million11.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.61 %0.15 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

40.00 million11.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Polski
čeština / český jazyk

Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski
Bohemian, Cestina

French Name

polonais
tchèque

German Name

Polnisch
Tschechisch

Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]

Ethnicity

Poles
Czechs

History

Origin

1270
9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Slavic

Branch

Western
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish
Proto-Czech, Old Czech

Standard Forms

Polish
Standard Czech

Language Position

2473
1 120
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Signed Forms

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Czech Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

pl
cs

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pol
ces

ISO 639 2/B

pol
cze

ISO 639 3

pol
ces

ISO 639 6

pols
ces

Glottocode

poli1260
czec1258

Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc
53-AAA-da

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Polish and Czech Alphabets

Polish and Czech Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Polish and Czech. In Polish Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Czech Alphabets there are 42 letters. To learn Polish and Czech languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Polish and Czech languages. The Polish phonology consist Polish vowels and Polish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Polish greetings vs Czech greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Polish and Czech are Most Spoken Languages.

All Polish and Czech 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 Polish and Czech dialects. Various dialects of Polish and Czech language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Polish are spoken in different Polish Speaking Countries whereas Czech Dialects are spoken in different Czech speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Polish vs Czech Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Polish dialects include: Kashubian, Masovian. Czech dialects include: Chod , Lach. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Polish and Czech Speaking population

Polish and Czech speaking population is one of the factors based on which Polish and Czech languages can be compared. The total count of Polish and Czech Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Czech language is 0.15 %. 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 Polish and Czech on Polish vs Czech where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Polish and Czech Language Codes

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