Polish language

Orthography

The Polish alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as kreska (graphically similar to acute accent), superior dot and ogonek.

Related Topics:
Polish alphabet - Latin alphabet - Diacritic - Acute accent - Ogonek

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Polish orthography also includes seven digraphs:

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Note that although the Polish orthography is mostly phonetic, some sounds may be written in more than one way:

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• as either h or ch
• {{IPA|}} as either ? or rz (though r? denotes a cluster)
• as either u or ó
• some soft consonants as either ?, d?, ?, ?, ?, or ci, dzi, ni, si, zi

Unlike in English, if consonants are doubled in script, it means that they are also doubled in pronunciation, for example: wanna , not ('bathtub'); motto , not .

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