Polish is spoken by about 43 million people of whom some 36.5 million speakers live in Poland, where it is the official language. Standard Polish, or variants which closely approximate the standard, is the variant spoken by most urban dwellers. It is the official language of government, media, administration, and education. Polish is a Slavic language and belongs to the West Slavic subgroup, which also includes Czech and Slovak.

(Source: UCLA Language Materials Project (http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=43&menu=004))

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Polish uses the Latin script. Here is a sample:

Wszyscy ludzie rodzą się wolni i równi pod względem swej godności i swych praw. Są oni obdarzeni rozumem i sumieniem i powinni postępować wobec innych w duchu braterstwa.

(Source: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1, as cited by http://omniglot.com)