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Wymysorys
Sign in to saveAlso known as Wilamowicean, Wilamowicean language, Wymysorys language, wym, Vilamovian, Vilamovian language
Wymysorys (, ), also known as Vilamovian, Wilamowicean, or Wilmesaurisch, is a West Germanic language spoken by the Vilamovian ethnic minority in the town of Wilamowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland ( in Wymysorys), on the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland, near Bielsko-Biała. It is considered an endangered language, possibly the most so of any of the Germanic languages. There are probably fewer than 20 native users of Wymysorys, virtually all bilingual; the majority are elderly.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Wymysorys is referenced by 320 other articles, and connects out to Gothic, West Germanic languages and Proto-Germanic.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It is catalogued under topics including Accuracy disputes from November 2020, Central German languages and Endangered Germanic languages.
Its subject is documented across 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Wymysorys
- Language.altname
- Vilamovian
- Language.states
- Poland
- Language.region
- Wilamowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
- Language.ethnicity
- Vilamovians
- Language.speakers
- 20
- Language.date
- 2017
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3
- West Germanic
- Language.fam4
- Elbe Germanic
- Language.fam5
- (High German)
- Language.fam6
- Central German
- Language.fam7
- East Central German
- Language.fam8
- Schlesisch–Wilmesau
- Language.fam9
- Bielsko-Biała
- Language.script
- Latin
- Language.ancestor
- Proto-Indo-European
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- East Central German
- Country
- Poland
Show 8 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Wymysorys language
- Commons category
- Wymysorys language
- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 70
- Wikimedia language code
- wym
- native label
- Wymysiöeryś
- indigenous to
- Wilamowice
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Revitalisation
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Alphabet
- Example words and their relationship to other languages
- Sample texts
- See also
- Citations
- General and cited references
- Further reading
- External links
Wymysorys (, ), also known as Vilamovian, Wilamowicean, or Wilmesaurisch, is a West Germanic language spoken by the Vilamovian ethnic minority in the town of Wilamowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland ( in Wymysorys), on the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland, near Bielsko-Biała. It is considered an endangered language, possibly the most so of any of the Germanic languages. There are probably fewer than 20 native users of Wymysorys, virtually all bilingual; the majority are elderly.
The status of Wymysorys is complex because, genealogically, it belongs to the East Central dialect group of High German. Nevertheless, based on the self-identification of its users as a group separate from the Germans and the existence of a literary language, it can be considered a separate language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wymysorys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.