Countries
European Union, Poland
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Poland
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
96
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2322
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
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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Hello
cześć
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
dziękuję
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
dobranoc
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
proszę
будь ласк
Sorry
Przepraszam
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
do widzenia
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
kocham Cię
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
przepraszam
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Podillian
Where They Speak
Poland
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
108,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Masovian
Volynian
Where They Speak
Poland
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Silesian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
510,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3415
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
40.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %0.46 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
40.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Polski
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
polonais
ukrainien
German Name
Polnisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Poles
Ukrainians
Origin
1270
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Western
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Polish
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2426
1
120
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Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pl
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
pol
ukr
ISO 639 3
pol
ukr
ISO 639 6
pols
ukr
Glottocode
poli1260
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic