Countries
European Union, Poland
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Poland
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3240
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
921
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2319
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
cześć
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
dziękuję
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
dobranoc
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
proszę
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
Przepraszam
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
do widzenia
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
kocham Cię
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
przepraszam
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Jeju
Where They Speak
Poland
South Korea
How Many People Speak
108,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Masovian
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Poland
South Korea
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Silesian
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
510,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3412
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million77.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million77.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Polski
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
polonais
coréen
German Name
Polnisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
Poles
Koreans
Origin
1270
Before 1st century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Polish
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
2412
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pl
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
kor
ISO 639 2/B
pol
kor
ISO 639 3
pol
Kor
ISO 639 6
pols
kor
Glottocode
poli1260
kore1280
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative