For other uses, see Atlantis (disambiguation). Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. From Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam. The map is oriented with south at the top.
Common Polish family names include Nowak, Kowalski, Wisniewski, Kaminski and Zielinski. As with other cultures, many Polish surnames are based on a profession or place of origin.
There are also significant Polish communities in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, and significant numbers of Polish speakers in many other countries, including the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Latvia, Romania, the UK and USA.Polish is closely related to Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Czech and Slovak.iterary Polish is based on the dialects of Gniezno, Cracow and Warsaw, though there is some dispute about this. The native name for Polish is polski (Polish), jÄzyk polski (the Polish language), or more formally, polszczyzna (Polish).