Is Polish a Romance Language?

Answer by  patti (29325)

"Romance" languages are those that are derived from Latin, the language of Rome ( = Romance). Polish is part of the Slavic subfamily of Indo-European languages. It is not a Germanic language. Linguists believe that spoken Slavic languages maintain more similarity among themselves than do the Germanic or Romance languages. So knowing some Spanish probably won't help much.

Answer by  jclick (1561)

Polish is not a romance language, it is a slavic language related to Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, and Bulgarian. The only romance language spoken in Eastern Europe is Romanian. If there are any similarities between Polish and Spanish it would only be new words (possibly derived from English) that have made their way into the two languages.

Answer by  Atticus (95)

Polish is not a romance language, but a Slavic language. Polish however, is related to Spanish in that they are both members of the Indo-European language family. Other romance languages include Italian, French, Romanian, and Portuguese. Indo-European languages are spoken from Europe to India.

Answer by  John13 (186)

Polish is considered a Slavic language. Slavic languages are spoken in Eastern Europe and include Russian, Blugarian and Czech, among others. There is little similarity between Romance and Slavic languages.

Answer by  trixie (22)

Polish is a Slavic language like Czech or Slovak and has relatively little in common with Spanish or other Romance languages.

Answer by  nosgdod (33)

No. Romance languages are those that stem from Roman, i.e., Latin. They are mainly French, Italian, Spanish and I believe Portuguese.

Answer by  Anonymous

No, it is not a Romance language, however out of all Slavonic langauges, polish is the most similar to Latin, it has many borrowings. FR:Cravate PL:Krawat (tie) FR: mueble PL: meble (furniture) FR: reqin PL: rekin (shark)