Station
identification: "Tu Polskie Radio, Warszawa", meaning
"This is the Polish Radio, Warsaw" The language of Poland and spoken in the United States, Russia, the successor states of the Soviet Union and Canada.
The Polish language is closely related to Czech , Slovak, and the Sorbian language found in Germany. Polish dialects include Little Polish and Silesian (spoken in the South of Poland) and Mazovian and Great Polish (spoken in the North). Kashubian (also spoken in the North of Poland) is often treated as a dialect of Polish, but has evolved into a separate West Slavic language.
Polish has 7 vowel sounds and 35 consonant sounds, written in a modified Latin alphabet. Sounds that are not represented by the alphabet are written using digraphs such as sz and cz (resembling English sh and ch in sound) and by diacritics such as z and s (resembling zh and a soft sh). Unique to Polish is the a sound resembling English w.
Polish has single length vowels, and the second to last syllable is stressed. Polish is the only Slavic language with nasal vowels (a and e). Polish is highly inflective and verbs are inflected according to gender as well as person and number. The order of words is highly flexible.
Station
identification: "Tu Polskie Radio, Warszawa", meaning
"This is the Polish Radio, Warsaw"
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Polish | Poland and surrounding areas, USA | Indo-European (Balto-Slavic) | 37-40m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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