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Polish is spoken by about 45 million people worldwide, of which the majority, 37 million live in Poland. Large Polish speaking
communities are to be found in many of its neighbouring countries above all Belorussia, but also Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
Due to its central location in Europe Polish has been influenced by other languages, above all from the Czech language.
Polish is, in contrast to for example Russian, written in the Roman alphabet rather than the Cyrillic alphabet. |
Up to the present four Poles have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature: H. Sienkiewicz, W.S. Reymont, C. Miłosz und W. Szymborska.
Polish belongs to the Slavonic Group of Languages.
The Slavonic languages are divided into The East Slavonic Languages(Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian), in the South Slavonic Languages (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian) and the West Slavonic Languages.
The last group includes Slovakian, Czech and Polish.
All these languages originated from Proto-Slavic that developed from the Indo-Germanic languages about five thousand years ago.
Slavonic languages are spoken by approximately 300 million Native speakers worldwide.
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