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Polish

polski
pl 45M speakers

Polish (polski) is a Indo-European language with approximately 45M speakers speakers. It is written using the Latin script. Its BCP 47 language code is pl.

Polish (język polski) is a West Slavic language and the official language of Poland. With approximately 45 million native speakers, it is the most widely spoken West Slavic language. Polish is known for its complex grammar with seven cases, grammatical gender, and extensive consonant clusters.

Polish is written with a modified Latin alphabet that includes letters with diacritic marks (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż). Polish literature has produced two Nobel Prize laureates in Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) and Wisława Szymborska (1996).

Writing Systems Used for Polish

Latin
Primary
Hello World
LTR Latn

Frequently Asked Questions

What alphabet or script does Polish use?
Polish is written using the Latin script (ISO 15924 code: Latn). Latin is written left-to-right.
What direction is Polish written?
Polish is written Left-to-right. Text runs from left to right, the same direction as most European languages.
How many people speak Polish?
Polish has approximately 45M speakers speakers worldwide. It is a member of the Indo-European language family.
What language family does Polish belong to?
Polish belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is written with the Latin script.
What is the language code for Polish?
The BCP 47 language code for Polish is "pl". This code is used in software, web standards (the HTML lang attribute), and internationalization contexts.

Language Facts

BCP 47 Code
pl
ISO 639-3
pol
Status
living
Speakers
45M speakers
Language Family
Indo-European
Scripts
1
Primary Script
Latin

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Data sourced from Unicode CLDR and ISO 639-3. Last updated April 20, 2026.