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German minority in Upper Silesia: Opole Voivodeship (west) and Silesian Voivodeship (east). German minority in Warmia and Masuria. According to the 2021 census, most of the Germans in Poland (67.2%) live in Silesia: 59,911 in the Opole Voivodeship, i.e. 41.6% of all Germans in Poland and a share of 6.57% of the local population; 27,923 in the Silesian Voivodeship, i.e. 19.4% of all Germans in ...
v : The letter v occurs only in a few native words and then, it represents /f/. That goes back to the 12th and 13th century, when prevocalic / f / was voiced to [ v ] . The voicing was lost again in the late Middle Ages, but the v still remains in certain words such as in V ogel (cf. Scandinavian f ugl or English f owl ) 'bird' (hence, v is ...
Except for the common sequences sch (/ʃ/), ch (allophone: /x/ or /ç/) and ck (/k/) the letter c appears only in loanwords or in proper nouns.In many loanwords, including most words of Latin origin, the letter c pronounced (/k/) has been replaced by k.
Silesian speakers currently live in the region of Upper Silesia, which is split between southwestern Poland and the northeastern Czech Republic.At present Silesian is commonly spoken in the area between the historical border of Silesia on the east and a line from Syców to Prudnik on the west as well as in the Rawicz area.
Schirach was born in Munich.A member of the noble Sorbian (West Slavic) Schirach family, he is the son of Munich businessman Robert Benedict Wolf von Schirach [2] (1938–1980) and his wife Elke (née Fähndrich, born 1942/1943, married 1962, divorced 1970).