Countries
European Union, Poland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Poland
Russia
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
cześć
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
dziękuję
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
dobranoc
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
proszę
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Przepraszam
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
do widzenia
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
kocham Cię
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
przepraszam
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Poland
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Masovian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Poland
Olonets
Dialect 3
Silesian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Polski
Русский
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Russki
French Name
polonais
russe
German Name
Polnisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Polish
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
pols
Not Available
Glottocode
poli1260
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Polish and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Russian language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Polish vs Russian Difficulty
The Polish vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.