Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
European Union, Poland
  
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 in
German-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
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Silesian
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Czech Republic, Poland
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
40.00 million
  
31
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.