Talk:Silesian language

Warning: active arbitration remedies

The contentious topics procedure applies to this article. This article is related to Eastern Europe or the Balkans, which is a contentious topic. Furthermore, the following rules apply when editing this article:

You may not make more than 1 revert within 24 hours on this article (except in limited circumstances)

Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Silesian language article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWLArchives: Index, 1, 2, 3: 90 days

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Czech Republic Low‑importance

	Czech Republic portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Czech Republic, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Czech Republic on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Czech RepublicWikipedia:WikiProject Czech RepublicTemplate:WikiProject Czech RepublicCzech Republic articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Germany Low‑importance

	Germany portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GermanyWikipedia:WikiProject GermanyTemplate:WikiProject GermanyGermany articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Poland Mid‑importance

	Poland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Poland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Poland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PolandWikipedia:WikiProject PolandTemplate:WikiProject PolandPoland articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Silesia (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Silesia, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.SilesiaWikipedia:WikiProject SilesiaTemplate:WikiProject SilesiaSilesia articles

Languages Low‑importance

	Language portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Languages, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of languages on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LanguagesWikipedia:WikiProject LanguagesTemplate:WikiProject Languageslanguage articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Archives (index)

Index 1, 2, 3

This page has archives. Sections older than 90 days may be automatically archived by when more than 4 sections are present.

Possible source

This source may be useful in supporting this article: Sojka, Eugenia (2021). "Decolonizing Upper Silesia: Reclaiming and Validating a Hybrid Culture in Scholarly and Literary Discourses". Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces. Springer Nature. Ibadibam (talk) 17:59, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Phonology

There is no section of this article on phonology which is very important in terms of language 2A00:23C7:588B:CA01:5177:ECE8:8B83:1098 (talk) 00:39, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not Czechoslovak variety

The source cited for putting Silesian within the Czech-Slovak group was Glottolog, which is a tertiary source like Wikipedia.

The sources cited by Glottolog itself do not seem to support the claim that it belongs to the Czech-Slovak bloc of West Slavic, but rather class it as a Lechitic variety, either as its own language (at the same rank as Polish and Kashubian) or subsumed within Polish.

I have removed the statement in the leading section of the article about Silesian being a Czech-Slovak variety, as it does not seem to be supported by valid sources. saɪm duʃan Talk|Contribs 09:13, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Saimdusan I will note that probably the thing referenced is a lect in the Czech republic also sometimes called Silesian - however the vast majority of the time people are referring to the variety spoken in Poland, which has very clear phonetic reflexes from this specific branch, in particular most people claim it comes from Old Polish or even Middle Polish (though more often Old Polish), and this is how it is handled on Wiktionary. Vininn126 (talk) 14:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Request move to Silesian dialect

Silesian is a dialect of Polish, not a language. Aside from loanwords from German, it is practically a relic of Old Polish. FeldmarschallGneisenau (talk) 03:30, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]