Countries
Ukraine
European Union, Poland
National Language
Ukraine
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
cześć
Thank You
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
dziękuję
How Are You?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Jak się masz?
Good Night
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
dobranoc
Good Evening
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
dzień dobry
Good Morning
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Dzień dobry
Sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Przepraszam
Bye
до побачення (do pobachennya)
do widzenia
I Love You
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Podillian
Kashubian
Where They Speak
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
Poland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Volynian
Masovian
Where They Speak
Rivne, Volyn
Poland
Dialect 3
Steppe
Silesian
Where They Speak
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Polski
Alternative Names
Not Available
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
ukrainien
polonais
German Name
Ukrainisch
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Ukrainians
Poles
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Modern Ukrainian
Polish
Signed Forms
Ukrainian Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
pols
Glottocode
ukra1253
poli1260
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
53-AAA-cc
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Ukrainian and Polish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Ukrainian and Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Ukrainian and Polish language. Ukrainian word for "Hello" is Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte) or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Ukrainian Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Ukrainian vs Polish Difficulty
The Ukrainian vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Ukrainian Alphabets and Polish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Ukrainian and Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Ukrainian and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Ukrainian is 44 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.