Wymysiöeryś, a language coming back like a phoenix

Wymysiöeryś has 8 native speakers left who are still fluent. It was thought by an academic to be dead by now. However around ten people have so far learnt the language to fluency and the prospects are better than at any point since WWII. A Germanic language, it isn’t mutually intelligible with German, but was still forbidden in communist Poland. However while most of the Germans in Silesia were forcibly removed (including my own grandmother) Wymysiöeryś speakers declared themselves Anglo-Saxon and were allowed to stay. (An Là on BBC ALBA, 13/4/24)

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