Language comparison

Polish vs Czech

Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: West Slavic.

Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.

Polish

polski

Family and branch (Glottolog)
  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Balto-Slavic
  4. Slavic
  5. West Slavic
  6. Lechitic
  7. Polish-Silesian
  8. Polish
Script
Latin
Hello / thank you
dzień dobry / dziękuję
Speakers (estimate)
c. 42 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
Official (1)
Poland
Without status
a minority language in 8 countries

Czech

čeština

Family and branch (Glottolog)
  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Balto-Slavic
  4. Slavic
  5. West Slavic
  6. Czech-Slovak
  7. Czech
Script
Latin
Hello / thank you
dobrý den / děkuji
Speakers (estimate)
c. 13 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
Official (1)
Czechia
Without status
widely used in 1 country

Where they are spoken

  • Polish 1
  • Czech 2

Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.

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