Learn Polish Today!
Today Polish is the official language of Poland; it is spoken by most of
the 38 million inhabitants of Poland (census 2002). There are also some
native speakers of Polish in western Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in
eastern Lithuania and northeastern part of Czech Republic. Because of
emigration from Poland in various periods, millions of Polish-speakers
may be found in countries such as France, Ireland, Australia, New
Zealand, Israel, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, United States, etc.
The estimated number of Poles who live beyond the borders of Poland is
10 million. It is not clear, however, how many of them can actually
speak Polish - the estimates range from 3.5 to 10 million[1]. This puts
the number of native speakers of Polish worldwide at between 40 and 48
million. According to Ethnologue, there are about 43 million first
language speakers of Polish worldwide.
Polish has the
second largest number of speakers among Slavic languages after Russian.
It is the main representative of the Lechitic branch of the West Slavic
languages. The Polish language originated in the areas of present-day
Poland from several local Western Slavic dialects, most notably those
spoken in Greater Poland and Lesser Poland. It shares some vocabulary
with the languages of the neighboring Slavic nations, most notably with
Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.
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