Polish language
Chopin's native speech
Polish is the official language of Poland, spoken by about 45 million people worldwide.
It belongs to the West Slavic branch of Indo-European languages, related to Czech and Slovak.
Polish uses the Latin alphabet with distinctive diacritical marks and is known for complex consonant clusters and a case system with seven grammatical cases.
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- SlavicOf certain Eastern Europeans
- declensionNoun form variation
- SilesianOf a Central European region
- diacriticsMarks altering letter pronunciation
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- Polishdiminutives, plural forms, singular forms, pan, Silesian
- Eastern EuropeHungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia
- PolandWarsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Poles, Poznan
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- Polish BiblesCatholic Bible
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Polish languageRussian
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