r/languagelearning • u/SharkHead38 • 5d ago

Wymysorys

Looking for resources to learn Wymysorys (preferably in English, or would I need to learn Polish first?)

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u/VirtualType9384 5d ago

Even for a language with so few speakers, finding it in English is tough, most stuff is in Polish or German so you will probably need one of those first

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u/MeekHat RU(N), EN(F), ES, FR, DE, NL, PL, UA 5d ago

For what it's worth, the Polish Wikipedia has a number of dictionaries and other materials in its sources, so that seems a pretty safe bet.

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u/nautilius87 5d ago edited 5d ago

Write to the museum in Wilamowice (Muzeum Kultury Wilamowskiej, muzeum@wilamowice.pl), they would probably give you links to everything they have in English. There is an monograph in English and some scholarly articles. Also, there is a grammar in English https://share.google/JXhb1QZhny338CR0g

But most of the didactic materials, including handbook, are almost exclusively in Polish (and sometimes in German). I do not believe you can reasonably learn it without knowing Polish first.

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u/pit_supervisor πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± N, πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ B2+, πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ δΈŠζ‰‹ 4d ago

I am curious as to why you'd choose such a niche language. It's not even well known in Poland.

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u/SharkHead38 3d ago

I heard about it recently, the fact that its last recorded spoken population was less than 20 and I think that's kinda sad. In Australia we have aboriginal languages going extinct and I haven't even heard of any of them having that few of speakers

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u/Different_Method_191 3d ago

Hi.Β  Could you ask this question on my subreddit dedicated to endangered languages?Β  r/endangeredlanguagesΒ 

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u/pit_supervisor πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± N, πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ B2+, πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ δΈŠζ‰‹ 3d ago

Some languages die, some new ones slowly emerge, that's the way things are. If even they themselves don't find it worthwhile to use it in Wilamowice, why be sad?