Are there different Polish dialects?

The Polish language consists of four major dialect groups, each primarily associated with a particular geographical region, and often further subdivided into subdialectal groups (termed gwara in Polish).

What language do most Polish people speak?

Languages Used at Home in Poland

Is Polish a language or a dialect?

Polish is a West Slavic language, closely related to Czech, Slovak, and the two Sorbian languages. There are small minorities speaking Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian and German too. Also there are Silesian and Kashubian, which are to some extent promoted as separate languages, although they are widely perceived as dialects of Polish.

How many people speak Polish in Poland?

More than 38 million people speak Polish as a first language in Poland, which represents 97\% of the population. Polish is considered a West Slavic language and belongs to the Indo-European language family.

How is the Polish language distributed in Europe?

Geographical distribution of the Polish language (green) and other Central and Eastern European languages and dialects. A large Polish-speaking diaspora remains in the countries located east of Poland that were once the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939).

Is the Polish language still spoken in Belarus?

However, the standard linguistic sources on Slavic languages normally describe them as dialects of the Czech language ,or sometimes as transitional Polish–Czech dialects. In modern times the dialect is still spoken mainly by the Polish minorities in Lithuania and in northwestern Belarus.