Editing Wymysorys language (section)

{{Short description|West Germanic language spoken in Wilamowice, Poland}}
{{Disputed|date=November 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Wymysorys
| altname          = Vilamovian
| nativename       = {{lang|wym|Wymysiöeryś}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|wym|vɨmɨˈsʲøːrɪɕ|}}
| states           = [[Poland]]
| region           = [[Wilamowice]], [[Silesian Voivodeship]], Poland
| ethnicity        = [[Vilamovians]]
| speakers         = 20
| date             = 2017
| ref              = <ref name="Wicherkiewicz 2017">{{cite journal |last1=Wicherkiewicz |first1=Tomasz |last2=Król |first2=Tymoteusz |last3=Olko |first3=Justyna |author1-link=Tomasz Wicherkiewicz |author3-link=:pl:Justyna Olko |date=10 November 2017 |title=Awakening the Language and Speakers' Community of Wymysiöeryś |journal=[[European Review]] |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=179–191 |doi=10.1017/s1062798717000424 |issn=1062-7987 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3             = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4             = [[Elbe Germanic]]
| fam5             = ([[High German]])
| fam6             = [[Central German]]
| fam7             = [[East Central German]]
| fam8             = [[Silesian German|Schlesisch]]–Wilmesau
| fam9             = {{ill|Bielsko-Biała language island|lt=Bielsko-Biała|pl|bielsko-bialska wyspa językowa|de|Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel}}
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]]
| ancestor         = [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]]
| ancestor2        = [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]]
| ancestor3        = [[Old Thuringian dialect|Old Thuringian]]
| iso3             = wym
| glotto           = wymy1235
| glottorefname    = Wymysorys
| pushpin_map      = Silesian Voivodeship#Poland
| coordinates      = {{coord|49.92|19.15|type:city_region:PL-24}}
| map2             = Lang Status 20-CR.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Wymysorys is classified as Critically Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''<ref>{{cite book |year=2010 |editor-last=Moseley |editor-first=Christopher |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/endangered-languages/atlas-of-languages-in-danger/ |series=Memory of Peoples |edition=3rd |location=Paris |publisher=UNESCO Publishing |isbn=978-92-3-104096-2 |access-date=2015-04-11 }}</ref>}}}}
}}
{{wiktionary|Category:Vilamovian language}}
 
'''Wymysorys''' ({{lang|wym|Wymysiöeryś}}, {{IPA|wym|vɨmɨˈsʲøːrɪɕ, vɨmɨˈɕœ̯ɛrɪɕ|pron}}),<ref>{{Citation |last=Mojmir |first=Hermann |author-link=:de:Hermann Mojmir |year=1930 |title=Wörterbuch der deutschen Mundart von Wilamowice |trans-title=Dictionary of the German dialect of Wilamowice |language=de |magazine=S-Z |publisher=[[Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences]] |publication-place=[[Kraków]] |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Hermann_Mojmir_-_S%C5%82ownik_niemieckiej_gwary_Wilamowic_strona_532.jpg |page=532}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Wolański |first=Adam |author-link=:pl:Adam Wolański (filolog) |date=13 January 2020 |title=wilamowicki czy wilamowski? – Poradnia językowa PWN|publisher=[[Polish Scientific Publishers PWN]] |language=pl |trans-title=Wymysorys or Wymysorys?|url=https://sjp.pwn.pl/poradnia/haslo/wilamowicki-czy-wilamowski;19896.html |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref> also known as '''Vilamovian''', '''Wilamowicean''', or '''Wilmesaurisch''', is a [[West Germanic language]] spoken by the [[Vilamovians|Vilamovian]] ethnic minority in the town of [[Wilamowice]], [[Silesian Voivodeship]], [[Poland]] ({{lang|wym|Wymysoü}} in Wymysorys), on the border between [[Silesia]] and [[Lesser Poland]], near [[Bielsko-Biała]].<ref name="ELOW">{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/wym |title=Wymysorys |website=[[Ethnologue]]}}</ref><ref name="ISO639">{{cite web |url=http://www-01.sil.org/ISO639-3/documentation.asp?id=wym |title=Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: wym|website=[[SIL International]]}}</ref> It is considered an [[endangered language]],<ref name="ELOW" /> possibly the most so of any of the Germanic languages.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Andrason |first1=Alexander |last2=Król |first2=Tymoteusz |title=A Grammar of Wymysorys |url=https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/wymysorys-grammar.original.pdf |year=2016 |publisher=[[Duke University]] |department=Slavic and East European Resource Center |publication-place=[[Durham, North Carolina]]}}</ref> There are probably fewer than 20<ref name="Wicherkiewicz 2017">{{cite journal |last1=Wicherkiewicz |first1=Tomasz |last2=Król |first2=Tymoteusz |last3=Olko |first3=Justyna |author1-link=Tomasz Wicherkiewicz |author3-link=:pl:Justyna Olko |date=10 November 2017 |title=Awakening the Language and Speakers' Community of Wymysiöeryś |journal=[[European Review]] |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=179–191 |doi=10.1017/s1062798717000424 |issn=1062-7987 |doi-access=free}}</ref> native users of Wymysorys, virtually all bilingual; the majority are elderly.<ref name="ELOW" />

The status of Wymysorys is complex because, genealogically, it belongs to the [[East Central German|East Central]] dialect group of [[High German languages|High German]]. Nevertheless, based on the self-identification of its users as a group separate from the [[Germans]] and the existence of a [[literary language]], it can be considered a separate language.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

It belongs to the dialect group of the former {{ill|Bielsko-Biała language island|pl|bielsko-bialska wyspa językowa|de|Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel}}, which includes the [[Alzenau dialect]].