Language code: 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.

Code

pl

Name

Official

Polish

Native

Polski

Family
Slavic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
Greater PolishLesser PolishMasovianSilesian
Related languages
CzechSlovakKashubianUpper SorbianLower Sorbian
Key facts
Uses the Latin alphabet with nine distinctive diacritical letters (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż)Retains two nasal vowels, a rarity among Slavic tonguesFeatures seven grammatical cases and three gendersAllows long consonant clusters such as “szcz” or “prz”Employs different second-person pronouns and verb forms to mark formality levels
Sample phrase

Cześć, jak się masz?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-2, ISO 8859-16, Windows 1250, CP 852, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Polish speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

pl-PL Polish (Poland)

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