The Making of a Language: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland

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Manuscripts in a minority ethnolect - the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland - were discovered in 1989. This volume contains full versions of serval texts of various length written by Florian Biesik, who decided to create a literary standard for the literature in Wilamowean in order to prove its non-German, but possibly Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Flemish or Frisian origin. Thus it presents both the dialectal literature and the most important elements during the final stages of its extinction.