Polish Language - Evolution of the Polish Language, Polish Phonology, Polish Name, Silesian Language, Polish Exonyms, Name of Poland, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Evolution of the Polish language, Polish phonology, Polish name, Silesian language, Polish exonyms, Name of Poland,, Lw w dialect, Poglish, Book of Henryk w,, Polish orthography, Polish alphabet, Dz,, Old Polish language, Polish studies, History of Polish orthography, Bull of Gniezno, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, List of Polish exonyms for places in Germany, Niemodlin dialect,, Rozmiarek, Polish months, Mazurzenie,, Masovian dialect, Masovian language, The Centre for Polish Studies. Excerpt: Polish (j zyk polski, polszczyzna) is a Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages in Central Europe and the official language of Poland. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet which corresponds to the Latin alphabet with several additions. Polish speakers use the language in a uniform manner throughout most of Poland. Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest in terms of speakers of the West Slavic group. It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian and before Ukrainian. Geographical distribution of the Polish language relative to the other Central and Eastern Europe languages and dialects. The Polish language became far more homogeneous in the second half of the 20th century, in part due to the mass migration of several million Polish citizens from the eastern to the western part of the country after the Soviet annexation of the Kresy in 1939, and the acquisition of former German territory after World War II. This tendency toward a homogeneity also stems from the vertically integrated nature of the authoritarian People's Republic of Poland. The inhabitants of different regions of Poland still speak "standard" Polish so...