Countries
European Union, Poland
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Poland
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
cześć
  
您好
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
早上好
  
Please
proszę
  
请
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
遗憾
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
再见
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
outside mainland China
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
Polski
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
polonais
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1270
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Polish and Cantonese Speaking population
Polish and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Polish and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Polish and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Polish and Cantonese on Polish vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Polish and Cantonese Language Codes
Polish and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Polish and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.