Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland, written in the Latin alphabet with a set of diacritics that mark sounds the plain Latin letters do not cover. It preserves a system of nasal vowels and a fixed penultimate stress that most of its Slavic relatives have lost.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountFigure is for first-language speakers in Poland; a substantial diaspora, chiefly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, adds several million more heritage speakers of varying fluency not counted here. RegionPoland (official); minority communities in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine; diaspora in Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Australia, United Kingdom, United States 3 Classification
Official Status Polish
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This source names Latin directly: "language of Poland, written in the Latin alphabet with a set of diacritics that mark sounds the plain Latin letters do not cover."
Source The Cambridge Encyclopedia of LanguageDavid Crystal (editor)
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1. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
David Crystal (editor), Cambridge University Press, 2010Official status, Polish entity page
Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland, written in the Latin alphabet with a set of diacritics that mark sounds the plain Latin letters do not cover.
- In Family: Slavic
2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World
3. Wikipedia: Polish Language
Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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