West Germanic language spoken in Wilamowice, Poland
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Wymysorys
Vilamovian
Wymysiöeryś
Pronunciation
IPA:[vɨmɨˈsʲøːrɪɕ]
Native to
Poland
Region
Wilamowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Ethnicity
Vilamovians
Native speakers
20 (2017)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
Central German
East Central German
Schlesisch–Wilmesau
Wymysorys
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
wym
Glottolog
wymy1235
Wymysorys is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]
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Wymysorys (Wymysiöeryś, pronounced[vɨmɨˈsʲøːrɪɕ,vɨmɨˈɕœ̯ɛrɪɕ]),[3][4] also known as Vilamovian or Wilamowicean, is a West Germanic language spoken by the Vilamovian ethnic minority in the small town of Wilamowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (Wymysoü in Wymysorys), on the border between Silesia and Lesser Poland, near Bielsko-Biała.[5][6] It is considered an endangered language,[5] possibly the most so of any of the Germanic languages.[7] There are probably fewer than 20[1] native users of Wymysorys, virtually all bilingual; the majority are elderly.[5]
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 users as a group separate from the Germans and the existence of a literary language (or, more precisely, a microlanguage), it can be considered a separate language.
It belongs to the dialect group of the former Bielsko-Biała language island [pl; de], which includes the Alzenau dialect.
^ abWicherkiewicz, Tomasz; Król, Tymoteusz; Olko, Justyna [in Polish] (10 November 2017). "Awakening the Language and Speakers' Community of Wymysiöeryś". European Review. 26 (1): 179–191. doi:10.1017/s1062798717000424. ISSN 1062-7987.
^Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
^Mojmir, Hermann [in German] (1930), "Wörterbuch der deutschen Mundart von Wilamowice" [Dictionary of the German dialect of Wilamowice], S-Z (in German), Kraków: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, p. 532
^Wolański, Adam [in Polish] (13 January 2020), wilamowicki czy wilamowski? – Poradnia językowa PWN [Wymysorys or Wymysorys?] (in Polish), Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, retrieved 30 April 2020
^ abc"Wymysorys". Ethnologue.
^"Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: wym". SIL International.
^Andrason, Alexander; Król, Tymoteusz (2016). A Grammar of Wymysorys(PDF). Slavic and East European Resource Center. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University.
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