Countries
European Union, Poland
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
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 in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
  
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.