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The article presents general guidelines for language revitalization, developed within the framework of the project "Endangered languages. Comprehensive models for research and revitalization".
My name is Tymoteusz Król. My family is not originally from Wilamowice; my mum is Silesian and my dad is of Silesian and Highlander origin. Some people accuse me of not being a „true Vilamovian”. But I think I’m living proof that even if one is not of Wilamowicean origin one can be a true-born Vilamovian.
The presentation of the book “Malintzin itlahtol” by Refugio Nava Nava, during the cultural event "Languages across divides" at the University of Warsaw.
The Wymysiöeryśy Akademyj – Accademia Wilamowicziana (WA-AW), founded on the 7th of November 2013 at the University of Warsaw, was established with the goal of creating a single academic body through which efforts in documention and revitalisation of the Wymysorys language could be coordinated. The WA-AW for the first time brings together native speakers, academics and community members in an international partnership of co-operation and understanding.
The song "Iду по своіх стежках" performed by the renowned Lemko poet Petro Murianka. Murianka talks about the revival of Lemkivshchyna with Dr Olena Duć-Fajfer, literary scholar and the founder of Lemko Philology at the Pedagogical University of Cracow.
The study of language revitalization is a relatively new subfield of linguistics which focuses on the formulation and evaluation of strategies and actions aimed at reversing the processes of language erosion and bringing endangered languages back into use in their speech communities.
The traditional language of the Southern Polish town of Wilamowice, Wymysorys is the smallest language in the West Germanic family. If not for recent efforts to engage the town’s younger population in learning their traditional language, Wymysorys would be considered moribund, with only isolated cases of children learning the language since the conclusion of the Second World War.