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Polish vs Chinese


Chinese vs Polish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Poland   
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
5   
10

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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Chinese.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
24   
19

How Many Consonants
23   
13
23   
13

Scripts
Latin   
Chinese Characters and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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
510,000.00   
22
60,000,000.00   
2

Total No. Of Dialects
34   
27
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
40.00 million   
31
1,051.00 million   
2

Speaking Population
0.61 %   
25
16.00 %   
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]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Poles   
Han   

History

Origin
1270   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Not Available   

Branch
Western   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Polish   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
24   
20
1   
1

Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Polish and Chinese Language History

Comparison of Polish vs Chinese language history gives us differences between origin of Polish and Chinese language. History of Polish language states that this language originated in 1270 whereas history of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Polish and Chinese Language History.

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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.

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