Languages of Poland

Republic of Poland. National or official language: Pole. The number of languages that at the moment are spoken in Poland is of 11:

BELORUSAN	230,000 in Poland (1993 Johnstone).
GERMAN, STANDARD	500,000 in Poland (1998).
KASHUBIAN	A few thousand speakers. Most of the ethnic group of over 100,000 speak a regional variety of Polish (1993 Tapani Salminen).
POLISH	36,554,000 in Poland, 98% of the population (1986).
ROMANY, BALTIC	30,000 in Poland. Reported to be 81,000 Rom in Poland (1993 Johnstone). Population total all countries 100,000. Dialects: LATVIAN ROMANI (LETTISH ROMANI), NORTH RUSSIAN ROMANI, WHITE RUSSIAN ROMANI, ESTONIAN ROMANI, POLISH ROMANI. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern.
ROMANY, CARPATHIAN	One dialect is in south Poland, east Hungary, and Galicia; another in Transylvania, Romania; others in Czech Republic and Slovakia; Ukraine, USA. Dialects: GALICIAN, TRANSYLVANIAN. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern.
ROMANY, SINTE	Alternate names: SINTI, TSIGANE. Dialects: MANUCHE (MANOUCHE). Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Northern.
ROMANY, VLAX	5,000 Lovari in Poland. Dialects: LOVARI. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax.
SILESIAN, LOER
UCRAINIAN	1,500,000 in Poland.

- Linguistic information taken of"Ethnologue" Romany associations