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Countries

Countries

European Union, Poland
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Poland
Latvia

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Latvian State Language Center

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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.

Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3233
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

99
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2324
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 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

cześć
Sveiki

Thank You

dziękuję
Paldies

How Are You?

Jak się masz?
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

dobranoc
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

dobry wieczór
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

dzień dobry
Labdien

Good Morning

Dzień dobry
Labrīt

Please

proszę
lūdzu

Sorry

Przepraszam
Piedodiet!

Bye

do widzenia
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

kocham Cię
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

przepraszam
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kashubian
Livonian

Where They Speak

Poland
Latvia

How Many People Speak

108,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Masovian
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Poland
Latvia

How Many People Speak

45,000,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Silesian
High Latvian

Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

510,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

343
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

40.00 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.61 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

40.00 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

40.00 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Polski
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski
Lettish

French Name

polonais
letton

German Name

Polnisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Poles
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

1270
1530

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Baltic

Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Polish
Latvian

Language Position

249
1 120
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Signed Forms

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

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

pl
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

pol
lav

ISO 639 2/B

pol
lav

ISO 639 3

pol
lav

ISO 639 6

pols
lav

Glottocode

poli1260
latv1249

Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Polish and Latvian Alphabets

Polish and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Polish and Latvian. In Polish Alphabets there are 32 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Polish and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Polish and Latvian 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 Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Polish and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Polish and Latvian Speaking population

Polish and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Polish and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Polish and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 %. 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 Latvian on Polish vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Polish and Latvian Language Codes

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