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