Countries
European Union, Poland
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Poland
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
  
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
cześć
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
proszę
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
77.00 million
  
22
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
77.00 million
  
12
Native Name
Polski
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
polonais
  
coréen
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Koreans
  
Origin
1270
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Polish and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Korean language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Polish vs Korean Difficulty
The Polish vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.