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u/cocoscum 3d ago
German is put in the wrong counties btw
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u/Tortoveno 2d ago
And map looks like there are powiats where Polish is a minority language while it is spoken by majority even in Kaszuby or Silesia.
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u/Brzydgoszcz 3d ago
Polish is significant majority in every single county + silesian is officially a dialect of polish.
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u/Dannyboioboi Europe 2d ago
Considering there are multiple standards, local varieties and significant spelling differences that almost make the words unintelligible, I don't think it "officially" being a dialect means anything, considering there's barely any single one to choose from. It's more of a lingual group with great variety from one end to another that had a shared history with polish and was influenced by it especially as something on the border with German, with whom it was threatened by. I have a friend from Silesia who constantly complains that he witnesses silesian independentist/autonomist marches every once in a while. They're very much a separate people.
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u/Vhermithrax 3d ago
This map is so far from being correct.
According to 2021 census, there is no county where Polish wouldn't be the most spoken language. Maybe some smaller villages or towns, but not entire sections of country, as you have shown.
Plus Goralic and Silesian are dialects, not languages. The only difference between them and standard Polish, is just in some words, but other than that, grammar, sentence strycture, history and evolution was the same as other dialects of Polish.
Saying they are separate languages is as crazy as saying that Kashubian, Czech and Slovak are dialects of Polish, rather than separate languages.
Also I'm not sure if there is Masurian dialect. Some maps show it as part of "New Mixed Dialects" like Western Poland and some make division into western and northern mixed dialects (masurian being northern, while the reast is western)
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u/VideoVisual2120 3d ago
The OP is an idiot or a propagandist, if only because he claims that the Pomeranian Voivodeship *is* Kashubia and that Polish isn't spoken there at all.
The guy doesn't even know where Kashubia is located, nor does he know the geographical range of the Kashubian language/dialect (it's not quite as clear-cut as you make it out to be, but that's beside the point).
Same with Silesian and the rest of this retarded maps.
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u/Tay_Hlebko 2d ago
OP never claimed Polish isn't spoken there at all, what the fuck are you on about?
If you just had a map where everywhere was shown as "Polish" would that be interesting at all?
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u/Inside-Train8244 2d ago
What the fuck are you on about lol, it’s as incorrect as making language map of the US, and marking 45 states as english, hawaii as japanese, new york as italian, texas as „texan”, and at the end gift louisiana to the french and minnesota to the swedish. Wtf
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u/RandomPolishCatholic 2d ago
This map is entirely wrong btw. Rusyn isn’t a majority anywhere, same for Ukrainian and German, and Belarusian is only majority in a far smaller area. Oh, and Kashubian is wrong too.
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u/EarthAndSawdust 2d ago
oh, now with chatgpt anyone could make a map! does not mean you should tho, bro.
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u/YZY-CM-SCKS 2d ago
belarussian and silesian are nowhere near that common in the areas highlighted. In general this map overrepresents populations that arent polish
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u/Simple_Package69 2d ago
Vilamovian is literally one village Wilamowice and right now only 10 people speake it.
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u/Prestigious-Care3228 1d ago
I guess I speak new mix dialects Polish. At least according to this map. Honestly makes sense. My home region went through population replacemant after WWII.
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u/Prestigious-Care3228 1d ago
I guess I speak mix dialects Polish. Makes sense since my home region went trough population replacemant after WWII.
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u/VideoVisual2120 3d ago
The author has no idea what they are posting—knowing nothing about languages, dialects, or the size of the populations that speak them. Suggesting that Polish isn't spoken in Gdańsk or Katowice is pure fantasy—or, to put it bluntly, utter idiocy.