The parliament voted in favour of the “Silesian language” as a regional language. There were 186 Members, 236 in favour and 5 abstentions.
The task was supported by the governing coalition and 2 PiS MPs – Bolesław Piecha and Marek Merry. The Confederacy's proposal to reject the task was not supported by a parliamentary majority.
“The amendment of the bill is simply a substance of adding a twelve letters, 2 words: the Silesian language, but it is truly a change in the reasoning and functioning of the state,” said MP Monika Rosa during discussions on the normative act.
The Act assumes the inclusion of “Silesian language” in the Act on National and cultural Minorities as the second – alongside the Kashubian language – as a regional language. This opens the way to introduce voluntary classes from “Silesian language” in schools or to mount bilingual plaques with local names, where more than 20% of residents declare utilizing this “language”.
On the basis of the fresh rules, the government will subsidize tax-based actions in the field of “Silesian language”. 2 representatives of the population utilizing the “Silesian language” will be introduced to the Commission of the Common Government and National and cultural Minorities.
The last census of 2021 shows that 596 224 people declared “Silesian nationality”, including 236 588 as the first, and 187 372 as the only. The usage of “Silesian language” in home contacts was confirmed by 467 145 people and 54,957 of them were the only ones.
How We've been reportingIn March this year, Confederate MP Roman Fritz in the Silesian Sejm argued that “Silesian language” does not exist. “Why the hell does individual want to heat up the discipline of any fake imaginary mat?” he asked.
The MP referred to the words of prof. Jan Miodek: “There is not a single structural feature which would disagree from the Silesian dialect from the Wielkopolska or Małopolska dialect. Silesian Polish is an archaic regional form of Polish speech. Don't ask me to prove that possibly the Silesian language is simply a separate language, not to ask for its codification due to the fact that it's nonsense. The naivety combined with fanaticism, Mr Kohut," he spoke to the Euro MP selected from Robert Biedron's letter of spring.
“There are several, or possibly respective dozen, Silesian language noises”, he argued.
"Why the hell would a guy want to heat up the discipline of any fake imaginary mat? In spite of historical and technological truth, individual has been tasked with needing any emotional resentation for political capital. To the authors of the project: finish fandom, warm up your players to hasiok, due to the fact that you are not having fun, my friends. Conclusion? The Silesian language does not exist, there is no specified animal," he concluded.
As the Kresy.pl portal reminds, in January KO MPs submitted a draft law in the Sejm on granting the Silesian position of regional language. KO leader, current Prime Minister Donald Tusk, announced this during the election campaign.
The bill triggered a wave of comments in public space. “This is simply a buzz, a dialect, not a ‘language’. Poznańists have akin differences, but no 1 here has an thought of recognizing this urban sound as a separate language, even to the empty head,” commented prof. Stanisław Żerko – a Polish historian and non-mator.
In turn, Szczepan Hardoch, a writer who created, among others, in the Silesian Guarantee, declared that “this is just the beginning.” “Our common goal is to recognise Silesia as an cultural minority, but besides in this limited dimension, if this law enters into force, it will be a historically unprecedented event,” he said.
To make Śląski the second after Kashubian, formally recognized in Poland regional language, they have been trying for years the Silesian communities, usurping the right to appear on behalf of all Silesians. In specified a situation, according to Polish law, funds would should be allocated, among others, to the Silesian regional education, cultural and artistic activities, as well as the creation of Silesian tv and radio programmes and the protection of places related to Silesian culture. This depends primarily on the Silesians, who do not hide that they see in this the anticipation of promoting their regional communicative and rhetoric, shaped in opposition to Poland and Poland.
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