Countries
Czech Republic, European Union
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Czech Republic
  
Poland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Czech Language
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Interesting Facts
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
  
- 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
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Czech-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
ahoj
  
cześć
  
Thank You
děkuji
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
Jak se máš?
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
dobrou noc
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
dobrý večer
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
dobré odpoledne
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
dobré ráno
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
prosím
  
proszę
  
Sorry
litovat
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
sbohem
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
Miluji tě
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
promiňte
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
Chod
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
Chodsko, Bohemia
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Lach
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
  
Poland
  
Dialect 3
Moravian
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
40.00 million
  
24
Native Name
čeština / český jazyk
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Bohemian, Cestina
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
tchèque
  
polonais
  
German Name
Tschechisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Czechs
  
Poles
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1270
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Czech
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
Czech Sign Language
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
cs
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ces
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
cze
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
ces
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
pols
  
Glottocode
czec1258
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-da
  
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
  
Czech 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 Czech and Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Czech and Polish language. Czech word for "Hello" is ahoj or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common Czech Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Czech vs Polish Difficulty
The Czech vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Czech 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 Czech and Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Czech and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Czech is 44 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.