Teschener Mundarten
The Cieszyn Silesian dialect has been known by various names over the years. Speakers today usually refer to it as "", which means "in our own way", a self-designation also encountered for other Slavic varieties in the Carpathians. In the past, the dialect has been mostly lumped together with other, territorially bigger languages/dialects: beginning with Polish (Latin "concio Polonica"), "Moravian" ("moravski / po moravsku"), "diluted Polish" (Wasserpolnisch) or less pejoratively Silesian-Polish ("schlesisch-polnisch"), but mostly with Silesian by the Upper Silesians and Poles. The Polish linguists have mostly seen it as part of the Silesian dialect, first in 1974 recognising the Cieszyn Silesian dialect ("narzecze cieszyńskie") as a specific and distinct subgroup of that dialect (Stanisław Bąk, 1974; Alfred Zaręba, 1988; Bogusław Wyderka, 2010). As such, from the 1990s the Cieszyn Silesian dialect became an object of the debate, whether Silesian is a separate language or just a dialect.