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Polish (polski, jezyk polski) is the official language of Poland.
1 History
Polish has been influenced by contact with foreign languages (foremost Latin, Czech, French, German, ItalianItalian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Standard Italian is based on Tuscan dialects and is somewhat intermediate between the languages of Southern Italy and the Gallo-Romance languages of the North., RussianRussian /'ruski j'zk/) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, inclu and recently it has been virtually bombarded by EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil, especially American English language elements). In Upper SilesiaUpper Silesia (Polish Gorny Slask German Oberschlesien is the south-eastern part of Silesia, a historical and geographical region of Poland ( Opole Voivodship and Silesian Voivodship) and of the Czech Republic ( Silesian-Moravian Region). The region is si the inimitable regional dialects are influenced by German elements. Since 1945, as the result of mass education and mass migrations (forced by the socialist government on the society to suppress the development of the local communities), standard Polish has become far more homogeneous, although regional dialects persist. In the western and northern territories, resettled in large measure by PolesThe Poles are a western Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with Poland and the Polish language. There are around 38 million Poles in Poland as well as autochthonous Polish minorities in the surrounding countries such as Germany, Ukraine, Romania, et from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union, the older generation came to speak a language characteristic of the former eastern provinces.
2 Classification
The Polish language, together with other Lekhitic languages ( Kashubian, Polabian), Upper and Lower Sorbian, Czech and Slovak, belongs to the West branch of Slavic languages.
