Countries
Countries
European Union, Poland
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Poland
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3230
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
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
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
cześć
Ħello
Thank You
dziękuję
Grazzi
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
Kif int?
Good Night
dobranoc
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
proszę
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Przepraszam
Skużani!
Bye
do widzenia
Ċaw
I Love You
kocham Cię
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
przepraszam
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Qormi
Where They Speak
Poland
Malta
How Many People Speak
108,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Masovian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Poland
Malta
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Silesian
Not Present
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
-
How Many People Speak
510,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
342
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Polski
Malti
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Malti
French Name
polonais
maltais
German Name
Polnisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Poles
Maltese
History
Origin
1270
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Semitic
Branch
Western
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Polish
Maltese
Language Position
2425
1
120
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Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
pl
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
pol
mlt
ISO 639 3
pol
mlt
ISO 639 6
pols
mlt
Glottocode
poli1260
malt1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic