 wymysorys (wymysiÃ¶eryÅ), also known as vilamovian or wilamowicean, is a west germanic micro-language actively used in the small town of wilamowice, poland (wymysoÃ¼ in wymysorys), on the border between silesia and lesser poland, near bielsko-biaÅa.ethnologue: languages of the world - wymysorysdocumentation for iso 639 identifier: wym it is considered an endangered language. at present, there are probably between 70 and 100 native users of wymysorys, virtually all bilingual and the majority of them are elderly people. ==history== in origin, wymysorys appears to derive from 12th-century middle high german, with a strong influence from low german, dutch, frisian, polish and old english. the inhabitants of wilamowice are thought to be descendants of german, flemish and scottish settlers who arrived in poland during the 13th-century. however, the inhabitants of wilamowice always denied any connections with germany and proclaimed their flemish origins.http://www.fil.wilamowice.pl/upload/file/pdf/knack2002.pdf knack, issue 31, 2002 although related to german, wymysorys is not mutually intelligible with standard german (as is also true for most german dialects, though).wicherkiewicz, op.cit., p.15 wymysorys was the vernacular language of wilamowice until 1939â1945. however, it seems it has been in decline since late 19th century. in 1880 as much as 92% of the town's inhabitants spoke wymysorys (1525 out of 1662), in 1890 - only 72%, in 1900 - 67%, in 1910 - 73% again.wicherkiewicz, op.cit., p.10 although wymysorys was taught in local schools (under the name of "local variety of german"), since 1875 the basic language of instruction in most schools in austro-hungarian galicia was polish. during world war ii and the german occupation of poland wymysorys was openly promoted by the nazi administration, but after the war the tables turned: local communist authorities f
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