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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'', which is graphically similar to acute accent (ć, ń, ó, ś, ź), as well as dot (ż), ogonek (ą, ę), and bar (ł). The standard character encoding for the Polish alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2), although both ISO-8859-13 (Latin-7) and ISO-8859-16 (Latin-10) encodings include glyphs of the Polish alphabet.
There are 32 letters in the Polish alphabet, including 9 vowels and 23 consonants.

'Polish alphabet'

Uppercase	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
Lowercase	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 are used in some commercial names and foreign words. In Polish pronunciation there is no need for them. They are replaced with K, W and KS/GZ respectively. Q, V, X are used in foreign nouns, but they aren't used in declension.
Letters of Polish alphabet not present in the English alphabet can be shown using the following HTML codes:

'Letters with diacritics'

Upper case	Ą	Ć	Ę	Ł	Ń	Ó	Ś	Ź	Ż
HTML entity	Ą	Ć	Ę	Ł	Ń	Ó	Ś	Ź	Ż
Lower case	ą	ć	ę	ł	ń	ó	ś	ź	ż
HTML entity	ą	ć	ę	ł	ń	ó	ś	ź	ż

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See also

See also

★ Polish orthography

★ Polish phonology