The POLISH Language:
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 Eastern 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. A distinctive feature is the preservation in spoken Polish of the nasal vowels, which are no longer found in the other modern Slavic tongues. Polish is a member of the West Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. |
