Silesian language

Silesian
Upper Silesian
ślōnskŏ gŏdka
ślůnsko godka
Pronunciation[ˈɕlonskɔ ˈɡɔtka]
Native toPoland (Silesian Voivodeship, Opole Voivodeship), Czech Republic (Moravia–Silesia, Jeseník)
RegionUpper Silesia / Silesia
EthnicitySilesians
Native speakers
510,000 (2011 census)
Early form
Old Polish
Latin script (Silesian alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3szl
Glottologsile1253
ELPUpper Silesian
Linguasphere53-AAA-cck, 53-AAA-dam
Range of Silesian on a map of East-Central Europe (marked as G1 and G2, in southern Poland and the eastern Czech Republic).

Silesian or Upper Silesian (Silesian: ślōnskŏ gŏdka / ślůnsko godka [ˈɕlonskɔ ˈɡɔtka]; Czech: slezština; Polish: gwara śląska, język śląski, etnolekt śląski; German: Schlonsakisch, Wasserpolnisch (pej.)) from the West Slavic language family. Some linguists say that it is a dialect of Polish, because of big similarities in certain dialects between these languages. But other state it's a language, including Mańczak Witold, saying Silesian shares 53% lexical similarity, usually requiring over 80% to be seen as a dialect.It is mostly spoken in Poland, but also in the Czech Republic and Germany.

References

  1. ↑ "Raport z wyników: Narodowy Spis Powszechny Ludności i Mieszkań 2011" [Report of results: National Census of Population and Housing, 2011.] (PDF). Central Statistical Office of Poland (in Polish). 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-21.
  2. ↑ "Ethnologue report for language code: szl". Ethnologue. Languages of the World.
  3. ↑ Silesian language at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
  4. ↑ Pucek, Zdzisław (1992-10-03). "Book review. K. Kowalski, B. Rzebik-Kowalska, 1991: Mammals of Algeria. Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków, Ossolineum-Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 370 pp". Acta Theriologica. 37: 140. doi:10.4098/at.arch.92-14. ISSN 0001-7051.