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 - graphically similar to acute accent (for example: ź, ś), 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 Polish alphabet.
There are 32 letters in Polish alphabet, including 9 vowels and 23 consonants.
See also: Polish language: Phonetics
| 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 |
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| 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:
| Upper case | Ą | Ć | Ę | Ł | Ń | Ó | Ś | Ź | Ż |
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| HTML code | Ą | Ć | Ę | Ł | Ń | Ó | Ś | Ź | Ż |
| Lower case | ą | ć | ę | ł | ń | ó | ś | ź | ż |
| HTML code | ą | ć | ę | ł | ń | ó | ś | ź | ż |