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Polish is the most widely-used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County, by 26% of the population, according to the 2001 census results, as Vilnius was part of Poland from 1922 until 1939. Polish is found elsewhere in southeastern Lithuania.
- List of English Words of Polish Origin
An example of polonism in the English language: the word...
- Polish Grammar
Polish retains the Old Slavic system of cases for nouns,...
- Polish Alphabet
The Polish alphabet. Grey indicates letters not used in...
- Lechitic Languages
The Lechitic (or Lekhitic) languages are a language subgroup...
- List of English Words of Polish Origin
Gjuha polake ( endonim: język polski) ose polonishtja ( polszczyzna ose shkurt polski) është një gjuhë sllave perëndimore e grupit lekitik brenda familjes së gjuhëve indo-evropiane e shkruar me shkrimin latin. [1] . Ajo flitet kryesisht në Poloni dhe shërben si gjuha amtare e polakëve.
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The declension of nouns has simplified. It now depends on the gender of a noun (smok, o smoku – foka, o foce) (a dragon, about a dragon – a seal, about a seal) and to some extent on the hardness of a noun's stem (liść, liście – list, listy) (leaf – leaves, letter – letters). Two categories have appeared in the masculine gender: the category of anim...
The declension of adjectives as nouns has almost disappeared (exception: pełen) (full). The adjectival declension in combination with the pronoun jь gave rise to a new type of declension combining the two: adjectival and pronoun declensions. It is different from the noun declension: jego, tego białego słonia (his, of this white elephant).
The declension of hard-stem pronouns with genders has assimilated to the declension of soft-stem ones. 1. těxъ > *ciech > tych jak ich (these as their) 2. togo > *togo > tego jak jego (this as his) Primarily, the singular feminine accusative ending was -ę. The form ją (her) was the only exception. Due to the influence of adjectives the use of the f...
They have undergone just slight changes: 1. azъ > jazъ > jaz > ja ("I") 2. mene > *mienie > mnie ("me") 3. kogo > kogo (without any major phonetic changes) 4. čьso > czso > cso > co ("what") The old genitive čьso was transferred to the accusative and has spread to be applied to the nominative. The old accusative has preserved its prepositions: w ni...
Ordinal, multiplicative and multiple numerals declined and still decline in the same way as adjectives. The forms of collective numerals have been blended (portmanteau) 1. masculine genitive dъvoj-a or dъvoj-ego > dwoj(e)ga (two)
The dual as a productive category has disappeared. Only some words for objects naturally occurring in pairs have generalized the old dual forms as the plural: oczy ("eyes", instead of the expected **oka), uszy ("ears", **ucha would be expected), ręce ("hands", **ręki would be expected), also in some proverbs: Mądrej głowie dość dwie słowie. – "Two ...
It is the most common Western Slavic language and the second Slavic language, after Russian. Polish has been an important language in Central and Eastern Europe. Polish is now spoken by over 43.5 million people as their first language in Poland. It is also spoken as a Second language in western parts of Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine.
The Polish Wikipedia ( Polish: Wikipedia Polskojęzyczna) is the Polish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. Founded on September 26, 2001, it now has more than 1,616,000 articles, making it the 11th-largest Wikipedia edition overall. [1] It is also the second-largest edition in a Slavic language, after the Russian Wikipedia .
For a guide to IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Polish ( język polski [jɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlskʲi] ( listen), polszczyzna, or simply polski) is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and is the native language of the Poles. It belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of the West Slavic languages. [9]
The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Siberia and the Russian Far East. [1] In part due to the large historical influence of the Russian Empire ...
