pl
Technical information about ISO 639 language code pl
The table below provides technical details for the Polish language, designated by the pl
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Polish belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Slavic subgroup. It is the official language of Poland and is used by Polish minority communities in Ukraine, Germany, and Czechia. It is written using the Latin script (Polish alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 40 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
36M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Polish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
pl-PL
– Polish (Poland)
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