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Polish vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
European Union, Poland  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

National Language
China, Taiwan  
Poland  

Second Language
Republic of Brazil  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)  

Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
  • 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
Not Available  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
9  
6

How Many Consonants
23  
13
23  
13

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)  
cześć  

Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)  
dziękuję  

How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)  
Jak się masz?  

Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)  
dobranoc  

Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)  
dobry wieczór  

Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)  
dzień dobry  

Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)  
Dzień dobry  

Please
请 (Qǐng)  
proszę  

Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)  
Przepraszam  

Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)  
do widzenia  

I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)  
kocham Cię  

Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)  
przepraszam  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Kashubian  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
108,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Wu  
Masovian  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Yue  
Silesian  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
Czech Republic, Poland  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
510,000.00  
22

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
34  
27

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
40.00 million  
31

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
0.61 %  
25

Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
40.00 million  
24

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
Not Available  

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
Polski  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Polnisch, Polski  

French Name
chinois  
polonais  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Polnisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈpɔlski]  

Ethnicity
Han  
Poles  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
1270  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Not Available  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Polish and Middle Polish  

Standard Forms
Standard Chinese  
Polish  

Language Position
1  
1
24  
20

Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
pl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
pol  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
pol  

ISO 639 3
zho  
pol  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
pols  

Glottocode
sini1245  
poli1260  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
53-AAA-cc  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Chinese and Polish Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Polish language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Polish language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC whereas history of Polish language states that this language originated in 1270. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Chinese and Polish Language History.

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Chinese 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 Chinese and Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Polish language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Chinese vs Polish Difficulty

The Chinese vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.

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