Countries
European Union, Poland
  
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
National Language
Poland
  
France
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
cześć
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
Bonjour
  
Please
proszę
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
désolé
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Africa
  
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Polski
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Français
  
French Name
polonais
  
français
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1270
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Romance
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
fras
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic