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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

European Union, Poland

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Poland

1.4 Second Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

1.5 Speaking Continents

Europe

1.6 Minority Language

Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

1.7 Regulated By

Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

32
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

cześć

3.2 Thank You

dziękuję

3.3 How Are You?

Jak się masz?

3.4 Good Night

dobranoc

3.5 Good Evening

dobry wieczór

3.6 Good Afternoon

dzień dobry

3.7 Good Morning

Dzień dobry

3.8 Please

proszę

3.9 Sorry

Przepraszam

3.10 Bye

do widzenia

3.11 I Love You

kocham Cię

3.12 Excuse Me

przepraszam

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Kashubian

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Poland

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

108,000.00
Rank: 41 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Masovian

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Poland

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Silesian

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Czech Republic, Poland

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

510,000.00
Rank: 22 (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

34
Rank: 27 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

40.00 million
Rank: 31 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.61 %
Rank: 25 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

40.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Polski

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Polnisch, Polski

5.3.4 French Name

polonais

5.3.5 German Name

Polnisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[ˈpɔlski]

5.5 Ethnicity

Poles

6 History

6.1 Origin

1270

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Slavic

6.2.2 Branch

Western

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Old Polish and Middle Polish

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Polish

6.3.3 Language Position

24
Rank: 20 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

pl

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

pol

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

pol

7.3 ISO 639 3

pol

7.4 ISO 639 6

pols

7.5 Glottocode

poli1260

7.6 Linguasphere

53-AAA-cc

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Origin of Polish language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Polish language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Polish language states that it was put to use in 1270. The history of Polish language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Polish Language History.The evolution of Polish language began with early forms such as Old Polish and Middle Polish. Polish is the standard form of Polish language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Polish Language.

Polish population

Polish population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Polish language. Polish language is spoken by 40.00 million people in the world. Most of the Polish population lies in the Polish Speaking Countries. Polish language is spoken as first language by 40.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Polish as second language. Get to know Polish speaking population in detail.

Polish writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Polish writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Polish language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Polish language. Learn more about . 

Information about Polish language

Check out all the information about Polish language here. You may find it interesting to learn Polish Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Polish Speaking Countries, Polish speaking continents and Polish Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Polish countries knowing common Polish Greetings will help you in communicating with Polish people.