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Some facts about Polish language
Polish language, member of the West Slavic group of the
Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
Polish is spoken as a first language by about 38 million people
in Poland, where it is the official language; by more than
1 million in the other countries of E Europe; and by about
1 million in North America. The Polish language is written
in the Roman alphabet augmented by the use of diacritical
marks. It is extremely rich phonetically, having 10 vowels
and 35 consonants. In pronunciation the stress is normally
placed on the penultimate syllable of a word. A distinctive
feature is the preservation in spoken Polish of the nasal
vowels which are no longer found in the other modern Slavic
tongues. As in Czech, the nouns, pronouns, and adjectives
have seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative,
vocative, instrumental, and locative). The verb is inflected
to indicate gender as well as person and number, and can do
so without the use of the personal pronoun. There are three
genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and two numbers
(singular and plural). A large number of diminutive and augmentative
forms is also characteristic. The vocabulary of Polish is
basically Slavic, but it has been enriched by borrowings from
German in the Middle Ages, from Italian during the Renaissance,
from French in the 17th and 18th cent., and also from English,
White Russian, and Ukrainian. The earliest surviving manuscripts
containing Polish words are some 12th-century Latin texts
containing Polish proper names; there are no extant Polish
writings of substantial length from before the 14th cent.
Modern Polish came into use in the 16th cent., developing
as the sophisticated and expressive language of a great literature.
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