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Language code: pol

Technical information about ISO 639 language code pol

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The table below provides technical details for the Polish language, designated by the pol code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

pol

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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