Countries
European Union, Poland
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Poland
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
cześć
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
proszę
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Polski
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
polonais
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
1270
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Modern Greek
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
ells
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic