Polish alphabet

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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.

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

See also: Polish phonology

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. In Polish pronunciation there is no need for them. They are replaced with K, W and KS/GZ respectively.

Letters of Polish alphabet not present in English alphabet can be shown using the following HTML codes:


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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