Countries
European Union, Poland
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Poland
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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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 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
proszę
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
1,051.00 million
  
2
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
Polski
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Not Available
  
French Name
polonais
  
chinois
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
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Ethnicity
Poles
  
Han
  
Origin
1270
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
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Branch
Western
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Polish and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Chinese language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Polish vs Chinese Difficulty
The Polish vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.