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Polish vs Serbian


Serbian vs Polish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Poland   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Poland   
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia   

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   
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia   

Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)   
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages   
Bosnian and Croatian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Serbian-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   
Cyrillic, Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
cześć   
Здраво (Zdravo)   

Thank You
dziękuję   
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)   

How Are You?
Jak się masz?   
Како си? (Kako si?)   

Good Night
dobranoc   
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)   

Good Evening
dobry wieczór   
Добро вече (Dobro veče)   

Good Afternoon
dzień dobry   
Добар дан (Dobar dan)   

Good Morning
Dzień dobry   
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)   

Please
proszę   
Молим (Molim)   

Sorry
Przepraszam   
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)   

Bye
do widzenia   
Довиђења (Doviđenja)   

I Love You
kocham Cię   
Волим те (Volim te)   

Excuse Me
przepraszam   
Извините (Izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kashubian   
Prizren-Timok   

Where They Speak
Poland   
Southeastern Serbia   

How Many People Speak
108,000.00   
99+
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Masovian   
Smederevo–Vršac   

Where They Speak
Poland   
Serbia   

Dialect 3
Silesian   
Torlakian   

Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland   
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   

How Many People Speak
510,000.00   
22
1,500,000.00   
17

Total No. Of Dialects
34   
27
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
40.00 million   
31
8.70 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.61 %   
25
Not Available   

Native Speakers
40.00 million   
24
8.70 million   
99+

Native Name
Polski   
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)   

Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski   
Montenegrin   

French Name
polonais   
serbe   

German Name
Polnisch   
Serbisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]   
[sr̩̂pskiː]   

Ethnicity
Poles   
Serbs   

History

Origin
1270   
11th 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   
Standard Serbian   

Language Position
24   
20
44   
33

Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
pl   
sr   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
pol   
srp   

ISO 639 2/B
pol   
srp   

ISO 639 3
pol   
srp   

ISO 639 6
pols   
Not Available   

Glottocode
poli1260   
serb1264   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc   
53-AAA-g   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Polish and Serbian Language History

Comparison of Polish vs Serbian language history gives us differences between origin of Polish and Serbian language. History of Polish language states that this language originated in 1270 whereas history of Serbian language states that this language originated in 11th 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 Serbian Language History.

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

Polish vs Serbian Difficulty

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

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