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Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Poland
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic
- Subdivisions
- East Lechitic ( Polish and Silesian ) West Lechitic † (includes Marcho-Magdeburgian , Rani ) (evolved into Polabian ) Pomeranian /Middle Lechitic † (evolved into Kashubian and Slovincian † )
- Glottolog
- lech1241
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Slavic
- Has part
- Polabian
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lechitic languages
- Commons category
- Lechitic languages
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 40000000
- topic has template
- Module:zlw-lch-headword
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lechitic (or Lekhitic) languages are a language subgroup consisting of Polish and several other languages and dialects that were once spoken in the area that is now Poland and eastern Germany. It is one of the branches of the larger West Slavic subgroup; the other branches of this subgroup are the Czech–Slovak languages and the Sorbian languages.
Languages
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