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Lithuanian vs Polish


Polish vs Lithuanian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Lithuania  
European Union, Poland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Lithuania  
Poland  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Poland  
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language  
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)  

Interesting Facts
  • Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
  • "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
  • 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
Latvian  
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200  
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
32  
14
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
9  
6

How Many Consonants
20  
10
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
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
Sveiki  
cześć  

Thank You
Ačiū  
dziękuję  

How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?  
Jak się masz?  

Good Night
Labanakt  
dobranoc  

Good Evening
Labas vakaras  
dobry wieczór  

Good Afternoon
Laba diena  
dzień dobry  

Good Morning
Labas rytas  
Dzień dobry  

Please
Prašom  
proszę  

Sorry
atsiprašau  
Przepraszam  

Bye
Ate  
do widzenia  

I Love You
Aš myliu tave  
kocham Cię  

Excuse Me
Atsiprašau  
przepraszam  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Samogitian  
Kashubian  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Poland  

How Many People Speak
500,000.00  
34
108,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Aukštaitian  
Masovian  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Poland  

Dialect 3
Curonian  
Silesian  

Where They Speak
Lithuania  
Czech Republic, Poland  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
510,000.00  
22

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
34  
27

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.00 million  
99+
40.00 million  
31

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.61 %  
25

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
40.00 million  
24

Native Name
lietuvių kalba  
Polski  

Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy  
Polnisch, Polski  

French Name
lituanien  
polonais  

German Name
Litauisch  
Polnisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈpɔlski]  

Ethnicity
Lithuanians  
Poles  

History

Origin
c. 1503  
1270  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Slavic  

Branch
Baltic  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Polish and Middle Polish  

Standard Forms
Lithuanian  
Polish  

Language Position
Not Available  
24  
20

Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language  
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
lt  
pl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lit  
pol  

ISO 639 2/B
lit  
pol  

ISO 639 3
lit  
pol  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
pols  

Glottocode
lith1251  
poli1260  

Linguasphere
54-AAA-a  
53-AAA-cc  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Lithuanian and Polish Language History

Comparison of Lithuanian vs Polish language history gives us differences between origin of Lithuanian and Polish language. History of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503 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 Lithuanian and Polish Language History.

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

Lithuanian vs Polish Difficulty

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

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