Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
European Union, Poland
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Poland
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
cześć
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
dziękuję
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Jak się masz?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
dobranoc
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
dobry wieczór
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
dzień dobry
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Dzień dobry
  
Please
Please
  
proszę
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Przepraszam
  
Bye
Bye
  
do widzenia
  
I Love You
I love you
  
kocham Cię
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
przepraszam
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Kashubian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Masovian
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Poland
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
40.00 million
  
31
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
40.00 million
  
24
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
Polski
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Polnisch, Polski
  
French Name
anglais
  
polonais
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Polnisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Poles
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1270
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Polish
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
pl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
pol
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
pol
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
pol
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
pols
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
poli1260
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
53-AAA-cc
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
English 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 English and Polish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in English and Polish language. English word for "Hello" is Hello or Polish word for "Thank You" is dziękuję. Find more of such common English Greetings and Polish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
English vs Polish Difficulty
The English vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of English 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 English and Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in English and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn English is 6 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.