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	Silesian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silesian (Upper Silesian) is spoken by the Silesian ethnic group (both Polish, Silesian and German nationalities) living in the region of Upper Silesia.
		Silesian is spoken in the region of Silesia in south-western Poland and north-eastern Czech Republic and in a couple of places all around the world.
		Lower Silesian - a dialect of the German language, historically spoken mainly in Lower Silesia, cataloged as Lower Silesian in Ethnologue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silesian (485 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Lor-Luk) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lower Pokomo is a Bantu language spoken in Kenya.
		Lower Silesian is a language spoken in Poland.
		Lower Tanudan Kalinga is a language spoken in the Philippines.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WLH.HTM (394 words)

	Encyclopedia: Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lower Silesian voivodship since 1999 Lower Silesia (Polish Dolny Śląsk, German Niederschlesien, Latin Silesia Inferior) is the north-western part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia in Poland, located along the middle Oder River and organized into Lower Silesian Voivodship, (Polish: województwo dolnośląskie) with capital Wrocław It was...
		The Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis (German for district of Lower Silesian Upper Lusatia) is the eastermost Kreis (district) of Saxony and Germany.
		In 1335, Duke Henry VI of WrocÅaw and the Upper Silesian dukes recognized the overlordship of the king of Bohemia, John of Luxemburg.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Silesia (7429 words)

	GERMAN LANGUAGE - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As applied to the language, deutsch first appears in the Latin form theotiscus, lingua the otisca, teutisca, in certain Latin writings of the 8th and 9th centuries, whereas the original Old High German word thiudisc, tiutisc (from t/ziot, diot, people, and the suffix -isc) signified only appertaining to the people,.
		As thu middle ages did not produce a German Schriftsprache or literary language in the modern sense of the word, which as is undoubtedly the case in Modern Germanmight have influenced the spoken langunge (Umgangssprache), the history of the language in its earlier stages is a history of different dialects.
		The language spoken during the Old High German period, that is to say, down to about the year I05o, is remarkable for the fulness and richness of its vowel-sounds in word-stems as well as in inflections.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GE/GERMAN_LANGUAGE.htm (7834 words)

	Polish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polish is the main representative of the Lekhitic branch of the Western Slavic languages.
		The Polish language is the most widely-spoken of the Slavic language subgroup of Lekhitic languages which include Kashubian (and its extinct dialect/language Slovincian) and the also-extinct Polabian language.
		The three languages and one language/dialect, along with Upper and Lower Sorbian, Czech and Slovakian, belong to the West branch of Slavic languages.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Polish_language (2349 words)

	Silesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ruling Silesian lords decided to rebuild their cities according to latest administrative developments, founding or relocating some 160 cities and 1500 towns with codified in place of settlements governed by older, customary Polish laws.
		In 1335, Duke Henry VI of Wroclaw and the Upper Silesian dukes recognized the overlordship of the king of Bohemia (John of Luxemburg).
		After the referendum, there were three Silesian Insurrections, and as a result of them the League of Nations decided that the province should be split and areas that voted for Poland should become an autonomous area within Poland, organised as the Silesian Voivodship (Wojewodztwo Śląskie).
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Silesia (1947 words)

	Silesia
		The Polish portion of Silesia, which forms the bulk of the region, is now divided into the voivodships (provinces) of Lower Silesian Voivodship, Opole Voivodship, and Silesian Voivodship.
		After the referendum, there were three Silesian Insurrections, and as a result of them the League of Nations decided that the province should be split and areas that voted for Poland should become autonomous Silesian Voivodship (Wojewodztwo Śląskie), as part of Poland.
		Most of the Silesian Germans were forcibly expelled from the lands east of the Oder-Neisse line, cf.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/si/silesia.html (1814 words)

	Silesian German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Silesian, also called Schlesisch, (ISO 639-2 language code: SLI) is a Germanic dialect spoken in Lower Silesia in southwestern Poland as well as in the northeast of the Czech Republic and a part of eastern Germany.
		Most German Silesian people who survived World War II either fled to Germany within its post-World War II borders or died in the attempt, along with an estimated 10 to 15 million other ethnic Germans who used to call areas east of the Oder-Neisse demarcation line home.
		This dialect is not recognized in Poland and there are no known speakers who declared this as their primary language in the last census.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Silesian (186 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search View - German Language
		Another characteristic of German, as well as of all the Germanic languages, is that the principal accent falls regularly upon the first syllable of a word; in verbal combinations, however, the root syllable, not the prefix, is stressed.
		German is an inflected language, with three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), four cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative), and a strong and weak declension of qualifying adjectives.
		By 1500 German had become generally accepted as the official language of all parts of Saxony and Thuringia and was the written language of the educated classes.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761567950__1/German_Language.html (2108 words)

	Polish language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Polish (polski, język polski) is the official language of Poland.
		In the western and northern territories, resettled in large measure by Poles from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union, the older generation came to speak a language characteristic of the former eastern provinces.
		The Polish language, together with other Lekhitic languages (Kashubian, Polabian), Upper and Lower Sorbian, Czech and Slovak, belongs to the West branch of Slavic languages.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Pl (1740 words)

	Projekat Rastko - Kašubi / Kaszëbë / Kaszuby
		Regional or minority languages are languages which differ from the official language of the state where they are spoken and which are traditionally used within a given territory by nationals of that state forming a group numerically smaller than the rest of the state's population.
		Kashubian (or "Cassubian", in Kashubian: kaszëbizna) is a West Slavic language spoken in northern Poland in the province of Pomerania (województwo pomorskie), mainly in the counties (powiaty) of Gdańsk/Gduńsk, Gdynia/ Gdiniô, Wejherowo/Wejrowò, Puck/Pùck, Lębork/Lãbòrg, Bytów/Bëtowò, Kartuzy/Kartùze, Kościerzyna/Kòscérzna and Chojnice/Chòjnice.
		Lower and upper secondary schools are primarily supervised and controlled by the provincial Boards of Education (kuratoria oświaty).
	www.rastko.net /rastko-ka/content/view/198/36 (5947 words)

	SLONSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Silesian is a Western Slavonic language closely related to Polish and Czech.
		It is not to be confused with Lower Silesian which is a German dialect, also spoken in Silesia.
		Silesia is a region situated in south-western Poland and the north-east of the Czech Republic.
	www.aber.ac.uk /mercator/english/lang/slonsk.htm (148 words)

	Roscislaw Zerelik: "A Few Observations About the Lemkos" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lower Silesia as a geographical entity is much larger than Wroclaw province was (as the borders were set July 6, 1950 and chosen by the author).
		Equating Lower Silesia with the city of Wroclaw and Wroclaw province (as it existed in 1950) leads not only to a reduction in size of the territory of the region, but most of all to a misrepresentation of the actual extent of Lemko settlement in Lower Silesia.
		Kusiak regarding the settlement of villages in Lower Silesia during the period from 1945-1949, in which, among others, the settlement of Lemkos within the framework of Akcja Wisla is presented, and in which the goals of the author are attained.
	www.lemko.org /magura/scholar/zerelik.html (4870 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Czech Republic
		The Czech Republic’s official language is Czech, which is closely related to Slovak (both use the Roman rather than the Cyrillic alphabet) and belongs to the Western Slavic sub-group of the Indo-European language family.
		Carpathian Romani, an Indo-Iranian language, is a mother tongue for a minority group.
		Smaller minorities exist that speak Standard German, Polish, Bavarian, Lower Silesian, or Sinte Romani as a mother tongue.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556878_3/czech_republic.html (393 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: West_Germanic_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as English, Dutch, and German.
		During the Middle Ages, the West Germanic languages were separated by the insular development of Middle English on one hand, and by the second Germanic sound shift on the continent on the other.
		The linguistic contact of the Viking settlers of the Danelaw with the Anglo-Saxons left traces in the English language, and is suspected to have facilitated the collapse of Old English grammar that resulted in Middle English from the 12th century.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=West_Germanic_language (372 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Print Preview - German Language
		Old High German, a group of dialects with no standard literary language, was spoken until c.
		The diversity of the German dialects (some of which are so diverse they are indeed languages) means that German speakers are often bilingual in their local dialect and Standard German, which acts as a lingua franca.
		Standard German (a dialect) is often confused with High German (a language grouping), but Standard German is actually a dialect within the High German sub-family, which comprises two further sub-families, Upper and Middle German.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761567950___3/German_Language.html (331 words)

	Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia) Province, Poland
		The region of Lower Silesia (Dolny Slasky) covers an area of around 20,000 sq km and is populated by approximately 3 million people.
		Lower Silesia is also home to lots of geological curiosities such as caves; rocky labyrinths; and several long-extinct volcanoes.
		The river system of the Lower Silesian region is formed by the Odra (Oder) and its tributaries; and there are a number of large artificial lakes, and intersting waterfalls.
	polandpoland.com /dolnoslaskie.html (313 words)

	Requests for new languages - Meta
		For natural languages, this will probably never be an issue; for artificial languages, however, a low number of speakers may be taken as evidence that the language is not widely spoken enough to deserve a wiki.
		Language code (ISO 639): rom (there is no ISO 2-letter code, just 3-letter code "rom"), the SIL code for Vlax Romany is RMY [10].
		Internally, the languages differ strongly, not only in phonology, but as well in grammar (some dialects have eight [!] cases, other fully dropped the case system) and in vocabulary (they share little words and adopted much from the languages of their sedentary neighbours, so dialects can be Slavonically, Hungarianly, Romanianly or Germanically affected).
	meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Requests_for_new_languages (13218 words)

	Articles - Silesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown under the Holy Roman Empire and passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526.
		First significant attempts were performed by Silesian duke Henryk IV Probus, however he died in 1290 before obtaining his goal.
		Some of the Silesian dukes (especially remaining ones of the Piast dynasty) and bishop of WrocÅaw, archduke Karol Habsburg wanted to move under Commonwealth protection as well (hoping to avoid participation in the Thirty Years' War which was ravaging lands of the Holy Roman Empire).
	www.lastring.com /articles/Silesia?mySession=504abffbfb6646e304c2724a32e37d7b (3330 words)

	Language (from Poland) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Polish language (together with Czech-Slovak, Upper and Lower Sorbian, and other Lekhitic languages) belongs to the West Slavic branch of Slavic languages.
		It was the relegalization of the trade union Solidarity and the agreement to hold partially free parliamentary elections that appeared to have opened the floodgates of radical reforms that spilled...
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-28238 (800 words)

	Poland's Silesian minority finds its voice and broadcasts it - 11-03-2005 - Radio Prague
		The Silesian dialect differs to a large extent from standard Polish in terms of pronunciation, intonation and vocabulary, of which a significant part has German roots.
		Silesian language and traditions are cultivated in hundreds of thousands of families of southern Poland.
		As of next month, access to Silesian media will be wider as the regional centre of Polish State TV in Katowice, the capital of Upper Silesia, is launching regular programmes in Silesian following the success of a number of pilot ones.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/64318 (679 words)

	DOLNY ŚLĄSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nothing less than a scrupulous and precise presentation of Lower Silesian diversity can do this region justice and that is the main aim of this website.
		Wroclaw is the capital of the Lower Silesia.
		The contemporary Lower Silesia has a lot to be proud of but also its multi-national and multi-cultural past is worth knowing.
	dolnyslask.pl /index-eng.htm (224 words)

	HIGH GERMAN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The German term ''Hochdeutsch'' is also used loosely, but not by linguists, to mean standard written German as opposed to dialect, because the standard language developed out of High rather than Low German.
		The historical forms of the language are Old_High_German and Middle_High_German.
		Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects being mutually intelligible and more separated ones not.
	www.beatlesfacts.com /High_German (435 words)

	Silesian - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Silesian can also mean from or related to Silesia, Lower Silesia or Upper Silesia.
		It must not be confused with the Silesian dialect of German (Lower Silesian) spoken by the Silesian people in the same region.
		There are also about 100,000 Silesian speakers living in the Czech Republic.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Silesian_language (454 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Silesian University, School of Business Administration (SU SBA) is dislocated in Central Europe, on North - East part of Czech Republic.
		Level of knowledge “world´s” languages is in CR common very low and it was practically narrow upon fundamental knowledge of Russian.
		This understanding led to specification of conception tutorial language on SU SBA and to processing proposals special training for concrete small and medium-sized firms, which SU SBA arrange.
	www.comu.edu.tr /Turkce/Akademik_Birimler/Aras_Uyg_Mrk/bozcaada/bildr/23.htm (2636 words)

	Silesia
		Silesia (Silesian: Ślonsk, Ślunsk, Polish: Śląsk, German: Schlesien, Czech: Slezsko) is a historic European province located in what is now southwestern Poland and the northern Czech Republic, along the upper and middle Odra/Oder river.
		The Polish portion of Silesia, which forms the bulk of the historic region, is now divided into the voivodships of Lower Silesian Voivodship (capital: Wroclaw), Opole Voivodship (capital: Opole), and Silesian Voivodship (capital: Katowice).
		In 1327, Duke Henry VI of Wroclaw and the Upper Silesian dukes recognized the overlordship of the king of Bohemia (John of Luxemburg).
	usapedia.com /s/silesia.html (1816 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

	Wroclaw Life \| Wroclaw Travel Guide \| Wroclaw Apartments Pubs Apartments Restaurants and Map \| Poland
		Wroclaw, the capital of Lower Silesia, is rapidly catching the attention of tourists and businessmen alike.
		Its perch upon the Odra river and the veritable maze of islands and bridges that make up the city have gained it the title of the "Venice of Poland." But the similarities between these two cities aren't limited to geography.
		Over a thousand years of history have left this Silesian jewel with a colorful culture and an atmosphere to match.
	www.wroclaw-life.com (350 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SLI
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Different from Upper Silesian, a dialect of Polish.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=SLI (74 words)

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