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Where is Lower Silesian spoken?

Lower Silesian (schläsche Sproache) is an Indo-European language, spoken in Czechia, Germany and Poland. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Lower Silesian is spoken

Lower Silesian is spoken in 3 countries: Czechia, Germany and Poland.

Country
Czechia
Germany
Poland

Lower Silesian has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Lower Silesian?

Wikidata gives about 23,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Lower Silesian sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Lower Silesian as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. High German
  7. Middle German
  8. East Middle German
  9. Schlesisch-Wilmesau
  10. Lower Silesian

Related languages

Other languages in the Schlesisch-Wilmesau group:

More about Lower Silesian

Codes: ISO 639-3 sli, Glottolog lowe1388. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Lower Silesian

Where is Lower Silesian spoken?

Lower Silesian is spoken in Czechia, Germany and Poland. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Lower Silesian?

Wikidata gives about 23,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Lower Silesian in?

Glottolog places Lower Silesian in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, High German, Middle German, East Middle German and Schlesisch-Wilmesau.

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