Polish - the hardest language in the world.

**~~Rethel~~** · 01-30-2021, 05:57 PM

Polska to jest bardzo ciekawa kraj!

Polska to też bardzo dziwna kraj.

Polska to jest najdowcipniejsa kraj na swiecie. A jaki kraj, taki ząd.

**~~Linebacker~~** · 01-30-2021, 06:13 PM

Forgetting that Asian languages exist. Learning to speak them is hard enough. Learning to read or write is almost impossible.

**Dandelion** · 01-30-2021, 06:28 PM

DuoLingo has a course on Polish. I urge everyone to try and pass it and make it the language of the EU now the Britons are gone.

**~~Rethel~~** · 01-30-2021, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Linebacker

Forgetting that Asian languages exist. Learning to speak them is hard enough. Learning to read or write is almost impossible.

But these are artificial problems. Asian languages are quite easy as languages. If they would be
written normaly, in latin script, then (exept of not similar vocabulary and maybe tones) it would
be piece of cake, as these languages basically have no grammar, even less than english.

**Östsvensk** · 08-21-2021, 02:00 PM

From what I hear, Lithuanian and Sanskrit have the hardest grammar rules out of all Indo-European languages.

**~~Ford~~** · 08-21-2021, 02:05 PM

It's got nothing on !Xóõ.

**~~Rethel~~** · 08-21-2021, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by Östsvensk

From what I hear, Lithuanian and Sanskrit have the hardest grammar rules out of all Indo-European languages.

Maybe comparing to english.

Lithuanian with 12 declinations is after polish with other westslavic.
Polish has 17 declinations and 18 conjugations plus much more developed phonetic system than lithuanian.

Sanscrit it would be fourth league, with Latin, ancient Greek, Islandic and maybe German.

**Östsvensk** · 08-21-2021, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Rethel

Maybe comparing to english.

Lithuanian with 12 declinations is after polish with other westslavic.
Polish has 17 declinations and 18 conjugations plus much more developed phonetic system than lithuanian.

Sanscrit it would be fourth league, with Latin, ancient Greek, Islandic and maybe German.

**~~Arūnas~~** · 08-21-2021, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Östsvensk

From what I hear, Lithuanian and Sanskrit have the hardest grammar rules out of all Indo-European languages.

taip

**~~Komintasavalta~~** · 08-21-2021, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Rethel

Maybe comparing to english.

Lithuanian with 12 declinations is after polish with other westslavic.
Polish has 17 declinations and 18 conjugations plus much more developed phonetic system than lithuanian.

Sanscrit it would be fourth league, with Latin, ancient Greek, Islandic and maybe German.

Finnish has 51 declension types and 27 conjugation classes (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appen...nal_inflection).

Also Finnish has 15 cases. Out of 261 languages classified for the number of cases at WALS, only 24 have 10 or more cases (https://wals.info/feature/49A#2/26.1/155.4):