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Polish vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
European Union, Poland  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
2  
13

National Language
Germany  
Poland  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
9  
6

How Many Consonants
9  
1
23  
13

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
cześć  

Thank You
Danke  
dziękuję  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Jak się masz?  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
dobranoc  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
dobry wieczór  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
dzień dobry  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
Dzień dobry  

Please
bitte  
proszę  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
Przepraszam  

Bye
Tschüs  
do widzenia  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
kocham Cię  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
przepraszam  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Kashubian  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
108,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Masovian  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Silesian  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Czech Republic, Poland  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
510,000.00  
22

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
34  
27

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
40.00 million  
31

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.61 %  
25

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
40.00 million  
24

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
Not Available  

Native Name
Deutsch  
Polski  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Polnisch, Polski  

French Name
allemand  
polonais  

German Name
Deutsch  
Polnisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[ˈpɔlski]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Poles  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
1270  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Slavic  

Branch
Western  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Polish and Middle Polish  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Polish  

Language Position
9  
9
24  
20

Signed Forms
Signed German  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
pl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
pol  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
pol  

ISO 639 3
deu  
pol  

ISO 639 6
deus  
pols  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
poli1260  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
53-AAA-cc  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

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

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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German and Polish Language History

Comparison of German vs Polish language history gives us differences between origin of German and Polish language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD 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 German and Polish Language History.

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

German vs Polish Difficulty

The German vs Polish difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Polish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Polish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Polish time required is 44 weeks.

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