Countries
European Union, Poland
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Poland
Japan
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Palau
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3299
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2314
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
cześć
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
dziękuję
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
dobranoc
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
proszę
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Przepraszam
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
do widzenia
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
kocham Cię
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
przepraszam
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Poland
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
108,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Masovian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Poland
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Silesian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
kansai
How Many People Speak
510,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3431
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Polski
日本語
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Nihongo
French Name
polonais
japonais
German Name
Polnisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Poles
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1270
1185
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Polish
Japanese
Language Position
248
1
120
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Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pl
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
pol
jpn
ISO 639 3
pol
jpn
ISO 639 6
pols
jpn
Glottocode
poli1260
nucl1643
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic