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The Lechitic (or Lekhitic) languages are a language subgroup consisting of Polish and several other languages and dialects that were once spoken in the area that is now Poland and eastern Germany. It is one of the branches of the larger West Slavic subgroup; the other branches of this subgroup are the Czech–Slovak languages and the Sorbian ...
Lechites. Lechites ( Polish: Lechici, German: Lechiten ), [1] also known as the Lechitic tribes ( Polish: Plemiona lechickie, German: Lechitische Stämme ), is a name given to certain West Slavic tribes who inhabited modern-day Poland and eastern Germany, and were speakers of the Lechitic languages. Distinct from the Czech–Slovak subgroup ...
Lekhitic languages, group of West Slavic languages composed of Polish, Kashubian and its archaic variant Slovincian, and the extinct Polabian language. All these languages except Polish are sometimes classified as a Pomeranian subgroup. In the early Middle Ages, before their speakers had become.
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West Lechitic dialects. The West Lechitic dialects (or West Lekhitic dialects) are a group of extinct Lechitic dialects, used by the Slavic peoples of Pomerania, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg and the lands on the lower and middle Elbe.
This list may not reflect recent changes . Lechitic languages. Marcho-Magdeburgian dialect. Masurian dialects. Polabian language. Polish language. Pomeranian language. Rani dialect. Silesian language. Slovincian language. West Lechitic dialects.
The Pomeranian language ( Polish: pomorszczyzna or język pomorski; German: Pomoranisch or die pomoranische Sprache) is in the Pomeranian group of Lechitic languages (Polish: grupa pomorska języków lechickich; German: die pomoranische Gruppe der lechischen Sprachen) within the West Slavic languages .
Classification. West Slavic is usually divided into three subgroups— Czech–Slovak, Lechitic and Sorbian —based on similarity and degree of mutual intelligibility. The groupings are as follows: [3] West Slavic. Lechitic. Polish. Pomeranian. Kashubian.