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Map of areas inhabited by the Gorals Gorals from Zakopane (1967) Young Gorals of the Beskid Mountains (). The Gorals inhabit a number of regions collectively referred to as the "Goral lands" (Goral: Góralscýzna, Polish: Góralszczyzna) split between Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Goral, less frequently called Highlander or Highland Polish, is an ethnolect of the Lechitic group, more specifically of the Lesser Poland dialect group spoken by the Gorals. Its vocabulary was significantly influenced by many languages like Slovak, [ 2 ] Rusyn, Hungarian, Romanian and German, being common vocabulary of the Carpathian region. [ 4 ]
Goralenvolk was a geopolitical term invented by the German Nazis in World War II in reference to the Goral highlander population of Podhale region in the south of Poland near the Slovak border. The Germans postulated a separate nationality for people of that region in an effort to extract them from the Polish citizenry during their occupation ...
Silesian Gorals within Cieszyn Silesia: Brenna (1), Wisła (2), Jablunkov (3), Morávka (4) Silesian Gorals [a] are a subgroup of the Gorals living in the Silesian Beskids and Moravian-Silesian Beskids within the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
Naemorhedus goral: Himalayan goral (also known as ghural) northern Pakistan, northwest and northeast India, as well as Nepal, Bhutan, and southern Tibet: Naemorhedus caudatus: long-tailed goral: eastern Russia and northeast China through North Korea and South Korea. A population has also been documented in the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean ...
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Goral, spoken in the mountains on the Poland-Slovakia border; Masovian, spoken throughout the central and eastern parts of the country; Silesian [3] [4] spoken in the southwest (sometimes also considered a separate language) The regional differences correspond mainly to old ethnic or tribal divisions from around a thousand years ago.
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...