{"id":3154,"date":"2022-10-12T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edsweb.co.in\/idioma\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2022-10-12T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:29:26","slug":"language-facts-polish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.idioma.com\/en\/language-facts-polish","title":{"rendered":"Language facts: Polish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3158 \" src=\"https:\/\/edsweb.co.in\/idioma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2b70efd813dc3ae786355686e510f8e45cd1c980-640x426-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"817\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.idioma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2b70efd813dc3ae786355686e510f8e45cd1c980-640x426-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www2.idioma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2b70efd813dc3ae786355686e510f8e45cd1c980-640x426-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.idioma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2b70efd813dc3ae786355686e510f8e45cd1c980-640x426-1-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland. It is most closely related to Czech and Slovak, sharing the region of Central Europe.<\/p>\n<p>It is spoken by around 55 million people around the world, primarily in Poland (around 38 million), and by immigrant communities in many countries in Europe, the UAE and USA (there are 11 million Polish Americans and a vast diaspora lives also in the UK).\u00a0It is also one of the official EU languages.<\/p>\n<h3>LANGUAGE OF A COMPLICATED TERRITORY<\/h3>\n<p>Polish language appeared around the 10th century as a result of an emerging Polish state. Until accepting Christianity and the Latin script, there was no alphabet to write Polish down so it existed only in spoken form. Despite a very complicated history of Poland and Polish people, and many attempts to suppress the language, its literature still developed. Nowadays,\u00a0Polish is the second most widely\u00a0spoken Slavic language in the world (after Russian), even surpassing Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>The language has some quite interesting grammar rules. Polish is highly inflected with seven cases for nouns, pronouns and adjectives. It also has a complex gender system, but uses only three tenses.\u00a0There are no definite or indefinite articles in Polish. Interestingly, when formally addressing someone (even in direct personal communication), Polish switch from second to third person and use the pronouns\u00a0<em>pan<\/em>\u00a0(Mr.),\u00a0<em>pani<\/em>\u00a0(Mrs.) or\u00a0<em>panstwo<\/em>\u00a0(plural &#8211; equivalent to &#8220;ladies and gentlemen&#8221;).<\/p>\n<h3>POLISH ALPHABET<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to the standard Latin alphabet, Polish uses 9 special characters (\u0105, \u0107, \u0119, \u0142, \u0144, \u00f3, \u015b, \u017a, \u017c; \u0104, \u0106, \u0118, \u0141, \u0143, \u00d3, \u015a, \u0179, \u017b) and special character pairs (ch, cz, dz, d\u017c, d\u017a, sz, rz) which represent sounds not available in the Latin alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>A \u0104 B C \u0106 D E \u0118 F G H I J K L \u0141 M N \u0143 O \u00d3 P R S \u015a T U W Y Z \u0179 \u017b<\/p>\n<p>a \u0105 b c \u0107 d e \u0119 f g h i j k l \u0142 m n \u0144 o \u00f3 p r s \u015b t u w y z \u017a \u017c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland. 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