Silesian

Also known as Upper Silesian, Silesian language, Silesian dialect

West Slavic ethnolect

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: language
Subclass of: Lechitic
Country: Czech Republic

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writing system: Latin script
Commons category: Silesian language
topic's main category: Category:Silesian language
Wikimedia language code: szl
topic has template: Template:Lang-szl
native label: Ślōnskŏ gŏdka
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 457900
linguistic typology: subject–verb–object
indigenous to: Lower Silesia
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SZL
historical region: Silesia
has grammatical gender: neuter

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Encyclopedic overview

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silesian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.