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Croatian vs Polish


Polish vs Croatian


Countries

Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
European Union, Poland  

Total No. Of Countries
9  
7
2  
13

National Language
Austria  
Poland  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)  

Interesting Facts
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
  • 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
Serbain and Bosnian  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages  

Derived From
Church Slavonic  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
30  
12
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
25  
15
23  
13

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
bok  
cześć  

Thank You
hvala  
dziękuję  

How Are You?
kako si  
Jak się masz?  

Good Night
laku noć  
dobranoc  

Good Evening
dobra večer  
dobry wieczór  

Good Afternoon
dobar dan  
dzień dobry  

Good Morning
dobro jutro  
Dzień dobry  

Please
molim  
proszę  

Sorry
Oprostite  
Przepraszam  

Bye
Doviđenja  
do widzenia  

I Love You
Volim te  
kocham Cię  

Excuse Me
Ispričavam se  
przepraszam  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakavian  
Kashubian  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
31
108,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Masovian  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Poland  

Dialect 3
Shtokavian  
Silesian  

Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  
Czech Republic, Poland  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
5
510,000.00  
22

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
34  
27

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
89.00 million  
18
40.00 million  
31

Speaking Population
89.00 %  
1
0.61 %  
25

Native Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
40.00 million  
24

Second Language Speakers
1.25 million  
36
Not Available  

Native Name
hrvatski  
Polski  

Alternative Names
Hrvatski  
Polnisch, Polski  

French Name
croate  
polonais  

German Name
Kroatisch  
Polnisch  

Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  
[ˈpɔlski]  

Ethnicity
Croats  
Poles  

History

Origin
9th century  
1270  

Language Family
Indo-European 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  
Polish  

Language Position
23  
19
24  
20

Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
hr  
pl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hrv  
pol  

ISO 639 2/B
hrv  
pol  

ISO 639 3
hrv  
pol  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
pols  

Glottocode
croa1245  
poli1260  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
53-AAA-cc  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Croatian and Polish Language History

Comparison of Croatian vs Polish language history gives us differences between origin of Croatian and Polish language. History of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century 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 Croatian and Polish Language History.

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

Croatian vs Polish Difficulty

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

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