Countries
European Union, Poland
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Poland
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
924
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2323
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
cześć
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
dziękuję
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
dobranoc
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
proszę
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Przepraszam
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
do widzenia
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
kocham Cię
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
przepraszam
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Poland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
108,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Masovian
Wu
Where They Speak
Poland
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Silesian
Yue
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
510,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3410
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Polski
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
polonais
chinois
German Name
Polnisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Poles
Han
Origin
1270
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Polish
Standard Chinese
Language Position
241
1
120
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Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pl
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
zho
ISO 639 2/B
pol
chi
ISO 639 3
pol
zho
ISO 639 6
pols
zho
Glottocode
poli1260
sini1245
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating