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Countries

Countries

European Union, Poland
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Poland
Germany

Second Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Council for German Orthography

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

Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

910
0 32
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How Many Consonants

239
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

cześć
hallo

Thank You

dziękuję
Danke

How Are You?

Jak się masz?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

dobranoc
gute Nacht

Good Evening

dobry wieczór
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

dzień dobry
guten Tag

Good Morning

Dzień dobry
guten Morgen

Please

proszę
bitte

Sorry

Przepraszam
Verzeihung

Bye

do widzenia
Tschüs

I Love You

kocham Cię
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

przepraszam
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kashubian
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Poland
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

108,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Masovian
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Poland
Germany

How Many People Speak

45,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Silesian
Texas German

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland
Texas

How Many People Speak

510,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3428
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

40.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.61 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

40.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Polski
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

polonais
allemand

German Name

Polnisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Poles
Germans

History

Origin

1270
6th Century AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Germanic

Branch

Western
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Polish
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

249
1 120
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Signed Forms

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

pl
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pol
deu

ISO 639 2/B

pol
ger

ISO 639 3

pol
deu

ISO 639 6

pols
deus

Glottocode

poli1260
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Polish and German Alphabets

Polish and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Polish and German. In Polish Alphabets there are 32 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Polish and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Polish and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Polish and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Polish and German Speaking population

Polish and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Polish and German languages can be compared. The total count of Polish and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Polish vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Polish and German Language Codes

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