Silesian German
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Silesian, also called Schlesisch, (ISO 639-2 language code: SLI) is a Germanic dialect spoken in Lower Silesia in southwestern Poland as well as in the northeast of the Czech Republic and a part of eastern Germany. The German Silesian dialect is a German dialect with some Western Slavic influences. Most German Silesian people who survived World War II either fled to "rest" Germany within its post-World War II borders or died in the attempt, along with an estimated 10 to 15 million other ethnic Germans who used to call areas east of the Oder-Neisse demarcation line home. There are still many unresolved feelings on the sides of both Poles and Germans, largely because of German atrocities committed against the Poles and the subsequent displacement of Germans in areas that constitute roughly the western half of modern Poland.
This dialect is not recognized in Poland and there are no known speakers who declared this as their primary language in the last census.