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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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