Polish is the official language of Poland. It belongs to the western branch of Slavic languages. It is a part of the Indo-European family and is spoken by about 50 million people. The language has matured so much that the transcripts written in the middle ages cannot be understood completely and need to be read with the help of a dictionary of archaisms.
Polish is the mother tongue of nearly 97% of Poland's citizens and is the most widely used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County (which constitutes 26% of the Polish speakers, according to the 2001 census). The Polish language is also spoken in other countries like Ukraine and Western Belarus.
The dialects are more-or-less the same except a few that differ from the standard Polish language. However, the disparity among them is very trivial and by and large based on regional pronunciation and vocabulary changes. The most noticeable dialects are that of Silesia and Podhale.
Although Polish is the national language of Poland, the standard Polish alphabet basically corresponds with the Latin alphabet except a few additions, as a result of the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which introduced Poland to Latin. The language is used by the Polish-speakers in a standardized manner through most of Poland.
The Prussian and Russian subjugators tried to eliminate the identity of the Polish language during the partition of Poland between 1795 and 1918, but their plans were ineffective and Poles succeeded in retaining their language despite several of their futile attempts. Over the centuries, Polish emerged as a language that was rich in literature and the largest speaking language in terms of the West Slavic group.
The Polish language thus came to be known as the language of elegance and civility in east central Europe and was used as the language of diplomacy.
More and more foreign words were embraced as time passed by. Today, European and American terms related to sports, politics, fashion, arts and technology are being integrated by the modern Polish language. After the Soviet invasion of the Kersey in 1939, there was a mass migration of millions of Polish citizens from the eastern to the western part of the country and that was the time when the Polish language became uniform in the second half of the 20th century.
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