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Silesian
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West Slavic ethnolect
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- Commons category
- Silesian language
- Wikimedia language code
- szl
- native label
- Ślōnskŏ gŏdka
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 457900
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Range of Silesian on a map of East-Central Europe (marked as G1 and G2, in southern Poland and the eastern Czech Republic).
Distribution area of the Silesian language % of population in Opole and Silesian Voivodeships using Silesian on daily basis according to 2021 Polish census
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