Polish language

Dialects

It has several dialects that correspond in the main to the old tribal divisions; the most significant of these (in terms of numbers of speakers) are Great Polish (spoken in the west), Little Polish (spoken in the south and southeast), Mazovian (Mazur) spoken throughout the centre and east of the country, and Silesian spoken in the southwest. Mazovian shares some features with the Kashubian language, whose remaining speakers (estimates vary from 100,000 to over 200,000) live in and around the city of Gda?sk near the Baltic Sea, predominantly to the west of the city. There are also several, now mostly extinct, regional dialects of Polish, including the Warsaw dialect.

Related Topics:
Great Polish - Little Polish - Mazovian - Mazur - Silesian - Kashubian language - Gda?sk - Baltic Sea - Warsaw dialect

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Small numbers of people in Poland also speak Belarusian, Ukrainian, and German as well as several varieties of Romany.

Related Topics:
Belarusian - Ukrainian - German - Romany

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