Countries
European Union, Poland
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Poland
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
cześć
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
proszę
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
Polski
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
polonais
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1270
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Western
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
buls
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Polish and Bulgarian 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 Polish and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Bulgarian language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Polish vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Polish vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Polish and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.