Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
European Union, Poland
  
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 in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
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
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
40.00 million
  
31
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.