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Language

Polish (polski)

Description

Polish is a language that belongs to the West-Slavic group of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages.

With about 46 million speakers worldwide, Polish is currently the third-largest Slavic language, according to the number of speakers, after Russian and Ukrainian.

Polish is a recognised minority language in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and in Ukraine.

Of particular interest in the position of Polish in Lithuania, where the Poles form the largest minority, with 6.3% of the total population. There are also large Polish minorities in Germany, in Ukraine and in Belarus.

Important Words

Hello - cześć

Cheers - Na zdrowie!

You are not alone  - NIE JESTEŚ SAM

Special

The Polish language uses the Latin alphabet with some extra letters such as: Ą, Ć, Ę, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź and Ż.

Language families

1. Indo-European
2. Slavic
3. West-Slavic
4. Polish

More

http://www.ethnologue.com/language/pol/

Minorities

Poles in Slovakia (3.000 Speaker)
Poles in Moldova (5.000 Speaker)
Poles in Hungary (10.000 Speaker)
Poles in Lithuania (250.000 Speaker)
Poles in Estonia (2.400 Speaker)
Poles in Latvia (54.000 Speaker)
Poles in Ukraine (219.000 Speaker)
Poles in Romania (4.000 Speaker)
Poles in Czech Republic (51.000 Speaker)
Poles in Belarus (402.000 Speaker)

Countries (Official language)

Poland (37.376.000 Speaker)