Polish
40.000.000 speakers
18 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: pol
Polish is a Western Slavonic language with about 40 million speakers in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. There are also fairly large communities of Polish émigrés in the UK, USA, Canda, Ireland and Brazil. Polish is closely related to Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Czech and Slovak.
Polish first appeared in writing in 1136 in the 'Gniezno papal bull' (Bulla gnieźnieńska), which included 410 Polish names. The first written Polish sentence was day ut ia pobrusa a ti poziwai (I'll grind [the corn] in the quern and you'll rest), which appeared in Ksiega henrykowska in 1270. In Modern Polish spelling that sentence is daj ać ja pobruszę, a ty poczywaj.
The native name for Polish is polski (Polish), język polski (the Polish language), or more formally, polszczyzna (Polish).
source
wikipedia.org, omniglot.com, evertype.com & ethnologue.comyounger brothers
sample text
Nie bądź kukułką jeżeli jesteś słowikiem.Nie bądź słowikiem lub muchołówką jeżeli jesteś psem. Mimo to każdy może wydawać dźwięki. Jesteśmy Underware.
translation kindly provided by Adam Twardoch