Polish Language

West Slavic language with over 39 million native speakers, sixth-most-spoken in the EU, using a 32-letter Latin alphabet.

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In 2024 Polish had over 39.7 million native speakers and ranks as the sixth-most-spoken language of the European Union.
The earliest known Polish sentence, 'Day, ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai', appears in the Book of Henryków, written around 1280.
The traditional 32-letter Polish alphabet adds nine diacritic letters to the standard 26-letter Latin alphabet.