Polish Language Translation, Interpreting, Transcription Services

POLISH LANGUAGE

Understanding The Polish Language & Providing Professional Polish Interpreters, Translators and Transcriptionists

American Language Services (AML-Global) understands the importance of working in the Polish language. For over a Quarter of a Century, American Language Services has worked with the Polish language as well as hundreds of others from around the world. We offer comprehensive language services 24 hours, 7 days a week worldwide by providing Polish interpreting, translation and transcriptions services along with hundreds of other languages and dialects. Our linguists are native speakers and writers who are screened, credentialed, certified, field tested and experienced in a number of specific industry settings. The Polish language is unique and has very specific origins and characteristics.

Polish in Poland and Its Demographics

Polish, spoken in Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. Poland, with 38,116,000 inhabitants, has the eighth-largest population in Europe and the sixth-largest in the European Union. Poland historically contained many languages, cultures and religions on its soil. The country had a particularly large Jewish population prior to World War II, when the Nazi Holocaust caused Poland’s Jewish population, estimated at 3 million before the war, to drop to just 300,000. The outcome of the war, particularly the westward shift of Poland’s borders to the area between the Curzon Line and the Oder-Neisse line, coupled with post-war expulsion of minorities, significantly reduced the country’s ethnic diversity.

Polish Dialects

The Polish language became far more homogeneous in the second half of the 20th century, in part due to the mass-migration of several million Polish citizens from the eastern to the western part of the country after the Soviet Union annexed the eastern Polish lands in 1939. The inhabitants of different regions of Poland still[update] speak “Standard” Polish somewhat differently, although the differences between these broad “dialects” appear slight. First-language speakers of Polish never experience any difficulty in mutual understanding, and non-native speakers can generally not easily distinguish regional variations.

Polish Phonology

Polish has a relatively simple vowel-system, with only six oral and two nasal vowels. The Polish consonant system shows more complexity. Its characteristic features include the series of affricates and palatal consonants that resulted from four Proto-Slavic palatalizations and two further palatalizations which took place in Polish and Belarusian. The stress falls generally on the penultimate (second to last) syllable.

Who are You Going to Trust with Your Vital Polish Language Needs?

The Polish language is an important language worldwide. It is vital to understand the general nature and specific idiosyncrasies of Polish. Since 1985, AML-Global has provided outstanding Polish interpreters, translators and transcriptionsts worldwide.

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