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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Poland

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language

Poland

1.4 Second Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

1.7 Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

cześć

3.2 Thank You

dziękuję

3.3 How Are You?

Jak się masz?

3.4 Good Night

dobranoc

3.5 Good Evening

dobry wieczór

3.6 Good Afternoon

dzień dobry

3.7 Good Morning

Dzień dobry

3.8 Please

proszę

3.9 Sorry

Przepraszam

3.10 Bye

do widzenia

3.11 I Love You

kocham Cię

3.12 Excuse Me

przepraszam

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Kashubian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Poland

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

108,000.00
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Masovian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Poland

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Silesian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

510,000.00
Rank: 22 (Overall)
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1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

34
Rank: 27 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

40.00 million
Rank: 31 (Overall)
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0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.61 %
Rank: 25 (Overall)
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0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

40.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall)
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0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Polski

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski

5.3.4 French Name

polonais

5.3.5 German Name

Polnisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]

5.5 Ethnicity

Poles

6 History

6.1 Origin

1270

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Slavic

6.2.2 Branch

Western

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Polish

6.3.3 Language Position

24
Rank: 20 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

pl

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

pol

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

pol

7.3 ISO 639 3

pol

7.4 ISO 639 6

pols

7.5 Glottocode

poli1260

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Polish

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Polish Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Polish Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Polish. Polish phonology gives Polish vowels and Polish consonants. There are 9 vowels and 23 consonants in Polish language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Polish is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Polish language is given in detail in this section.

All Polish countries

Want to explore all Polish countries? About Polish language serves you with all Polish Speaking Countries. Countries that use Polish as official language are called as Polish countries.

  • Countries that use Polish as their National Language are: Poland.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Polish as second language are: Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Polish greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Polish Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Polish language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Polish language.Learn Polish greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: cześć
  • Thank you: dziękuję
  • Good Morning: Dzień dobry
  • Good Evening: dobry wieczór
  • Good Afternoon: dzień dobry

All Polish Language Codes

Get to know all Polish language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Polish Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.