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The Warsaw subdialect (Polish: gwara warszawska [ˈɡvara varˈʂafska]), or Warsaw dialect (Polish: dialekt warszawski), is a regional subdialect of the Masovian dialect of the Polish language, centered on the city of Warsaw. It evolved as late as the 18th century, under notable influence of several languages spoken in the city.
The Polish alphabet. Grey indicates letters not used in native words (Q, V, and X). The Polish alphabet (Polish: alfabet polski, abecadło) is the script of the Polish language, the basis for the Polish system of orthography.
The letters q, v, x are used only in foreign words and names. [17] Polish orthography is largely phonemic—there is a consistent correspondence between letters (or digraphs and trigraphs) and phonemes (for exceptions see below). The letters of the alphabet and their normal phonemic values are listed in the following table.
The archdiocese of Warsaw and the Diocese of Warsaw-Praga are the two ecclesiastical districts active in the city which serve the large Roman Catholic population of 1.4 million. [162] The Lutheran Diocese of Warsaw is one of six in Poland; its main house of worship is the Holy Trinity Church from 1782, one of Warsaw's most important and ...
Polish is the native language of most Poles. It is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group and the sole official language in the Republic of Poland. Its written form uses the Polish alphabet, which is the basic Latin alphabet with the addition of six diacritic marks, totalling 32 letters.
The company is headquartered in Warsaw and employs over 67,000 people. [1] It is the largest mail-handling company in the country, which additionally provides courier, banking, insurance and logistics services. The digital services, such as neo-stamps, neo-letters and neo-postcards, are available through the Internet-based platform Envelo. [2] [3]
Bazyli (secular name Włodzimierz Doroszkiewicz) (born 15 March 1914 in Cisy - 11 February 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish Orthodox bishop, the fifth Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland, head of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church from 1970 to his death in 1998.
The monument is dedicated to Jan Zachwatowicz, a 20th-century architect and conservator-restorer who led the effort of reconstruction of Warsaw following its destruction in the Second World War. It was designed by Karol Badyna and unveiled on 4 March 2021.