The Polish diaspora comprises Poles and people of Polish heritage or origin who live outside Poland. The Polish diaspora is also known in modern Polish as Polonia, the name for Poland in Latin and many Romance languages.
There are roughly 20,000,000 people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland, making the Polish diaspora one of the largest in the world[1] and one of the most widely dispersed. Reasons for displacement include border shifts, forced expulsions, resettlement by voluntary and forced exile, and political or economic emigration.
Substantial populations of Polish ancestry can be found in their native region of Central and Eastern Europe and many other European countries as well as in the Americas and Australia.
The Polonia in English-speaking countries often uses a dialect of Polish called Ponglish. It is made up of a Polish core with many English words inside it.[2]
There are also smaller Polish communities in Asia and Africa, most notably Kazakhstan and South Africa.[3]
^Michael Pieslak, Poles around the World (see Polonia > statystyka)
^Dziennikarstwa, mgr Mieszko RozpędowskiAbsolwent dziennikarstwa i komunikacji społecznej w Instytucie Edukacji Medialnej i; Warszawie, Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w. ""Du ju spik ponglish"? O językowo-kulturowej hybrydzie XXI w. w wybranych przekazach popkultury" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
^Wojciech Tyciński, Krzysztof Sawicki, Departament Współpracy z Polonią MSZ (2009). "Raport o sytuacji Polonii i Polaków za granicą (The official report on the situation of Poles and Polonia abroad)" (PDF). Warsaw: Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland). pp. 1–466. Archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 1.44 MB) on July 21, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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