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Polish vs Croatian


Croatian vs Polish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Poland  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
9  
7

National Language
Poland  
Austria  

Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  

Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  

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.
  
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  

Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages  
Serbain and Bosnian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Church Slavonic  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
32  
14
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
23  
13
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
cześć  
bok  

Thank You
dziękuję  
hvala  

How Are You?
Jak się masz?  
kako si  

Good Night
dobranoc  
laku noć  

Good Evening
dobry wieczór  
dobra večer  

Good Afternoon
dzień dobry  
dobar dan  

Good Morning
Dzień dobry  
dobro jutro  

Please
proszę  
molim  

Sorry
Przepraszam  
Oprostite  

Bye
do widzenia  
Doviđenja  

I Love You
kocham Cię  
Volim te  

Excuse Me
przepraszam  
Ispričavam se  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kashubian  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Poland  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
108,000.00  
99+
660,000.00  
31

Dialect 2
Masovian  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Poland  
Croatia  

Dialect 3
Silesian  
Shtokavian  

Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  

How Many People Speak
510,000.00  
22
13,000,000.00  
5

Total No. Of Dialects
34  
27
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
40.00 million  
31
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
0.61 %  
25
89.00 %  
1

Native Speakers
40.00 million  
24
5.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
1.25 million  
36

Native Name
Polski  
hrvatski  

Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski  
Hrvatski  

French Name
polonais  
croate  

German Name
Polnisch  
Kroatisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  

Ethnicity
Poles  
Croats  

History

Origin
1270  
9th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Not Available  

Branch
Western  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Polish  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  

Language Position
24  
20
23  
19

Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
pl  
hr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
pol  
hrv  

ISO 639 2/B
pol  
hrv  

ISO 639 3
pol  
hrv  

ISO 639 6
pols  
Not Available  

Glottocode
poli1260  
croa1245  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc  
part of 53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Polish and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Polish vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Polish and Croatian language. History of Polish language states that this language originated in 1270 whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. 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 Croatian Language History.

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Polish and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Croatian language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Polish vs Croatian Difficulty

The Polish vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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