Polish (polski)

Polish (polski)

Polish, or polski, is a Slavonic language spoken by about forty million people mainly in Poland, and written in Latin (Roman) letters. Polish is closely related to Czech and Slovak. The first Polish king was baptised in AD 966, and the first Polish Catholic bishopric was established in AD 970. The Biblia Brzeska was the first full translation of the Scriptures into Polish, published in 1563 in Brest. In 1572 the Polish Brethren produced the Nieswiez Bible. The Gdansk (Danzig) Bible of 1632 was the most popular Protestant translation until 1975 when Warszawa (Warsaw) Bible was published. The first Catholic translation (Pismo Swiete) was the 1599 Wujek Bible translated by the Jesuit Jakub Wujek from the Vulgate. This was the best known Catholic translation until the Biblia Tysiaclecia (Millennium Bible) was translated from the Hebrew and Greek, which is now used in the Catholic liturgy. Subsequent editions came out in 1971, 1980, 1983 and 2000. Most Polish speaking Christians are Catholic, with historic Orthodox and Protestant minorities.

Bible work is done by the Bible Society in Poland (Towarzystwo Biblijne w Polsc) only protestant and now ecumenical Translation.