polTechnical information about ISO 639 language code pol
The table below provides technical details for the Polish language, designated by the pol code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Polish Native Polski |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Greater PolishLesser PolishMasovianSilesian |
| Related languages | CzechSlovakKashubianUpper SorbianLower Sorbian |
| Key facts | Only Slavic language that still uses nasal vowels in everyday speechEmploys a 32-letter Latin alphabet with distinctive diacritics such as ą, ł, ó and śHas seven grammatical cases and three grammatical gendersStandard Polish was largely fixed during the 16th-century Renaissance through the works of writers like Mikołaj RejWord stress is almost always on the penultimate syllable, an uncommon regularity in European languages |
| 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 |
The Polish language, identified by the code pol, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.
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