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The Polish alphabet is the script of the Polish language. It is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as kreska, which is graphically similar to acute accent (for example: ź, ś), as well as superior dot (ż) and ogonek (ą, ę). The standard character encoding for the Polish alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), although both ISO-8859-13 and ISO-8859-16 encodings include glyphs of the Polish alphabet. An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters — basic written symbols — each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past. ... Polish (polski, jÄ™zyk polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words. ... The acute accent ( Â´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin script. ... For the Russian magazine, see Ogonyok Ogonek (Polish for little tail; In Lithuanian it is nosinÄ— which literally means nasal) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner of a vowel in the Latin alphabet used in Polish (letters Ä…, Ä™), Lithuanian Ä…, Ä™, į, ų), Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua and Tutchone. ... ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. ... ISO 8859-13, also known as Latin-7 or Baltic Rim, is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. ... ISO 8859-16, also known as Latin-10 or South-Eastern European, is an 8-bit character encoding, part of the ISO 8859 standard. ...


There are 32 letters in the Polish alphabet, including 9 vowels and 23 consonants.


See also: Phonetics of the Polish language Polish (polski, język polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. ...

Polish alphabet
Upper case A Ą B C Ć D E Ę F G H I J K L Ł M N Ń O Ó P R S Ś T U W Y Z Ź Ż
Lower case a ą b c ć d e ę f g h i j k l ł m n ń o ó p r s ś t u w y z ź ż


The letters Q, V and X do not belong to the Polish alphabet but they are used in some commercial names and foreign words.


Letters of Polish alphabet not present in English alphabet can be shown using the following HTML codes: The English language has been written using the Latin alphabet from ca. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ...

Letters with diacritics
Upper case Ą Ć Ę Ł Ń Ó Ś Ź Ż
HTML entity Ą Ć Ę Ł Ń Ó Ś Ź Ż
Lower case ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż
HTML entity ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż

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