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Encyclopedia > Lower Silesian

Lower Silesian (also called Niederschlesisch) 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. The lower silesian dialect is a mixture of Polish and German. This dialect is not recognized in Poland and there are no known speakers who declared this as their primary language in the last census.


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External link

  • Ethnologue report for Lower Silesian (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SLI)

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Lower Silesia: Information from Answers.com (744 words)
Lower Silesia (Polish: Dolny Śląsk; German: Niederschlesien; Latin: Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia.
Polish Lower Silesia, the bulk of the historical region, is administratively part of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in western Poland, while a small region west of the Lusatian Neisse added to Silesia in 1815 is divided between Görlitz, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis, and Oberspreewald-Lausitz in eastern Germany.
In 1945 after World War II Lower Silesia east of the Lusatian Neisse was assigned to Poland by the conquest of the Soviet Union and its Allies and its German population was forcefully expelled.
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