Lechian languages

The Lechic languages are a subgroup of the West Slavic languages .

Assuming that in the common Slavic period (approx. 500 to 800 AD) a group of Lechic dialects was spun off from the West Slavic dialects, the languages ​​Pomoran (also called Baltic Slavic, which are Kashubian and Slovincian ) are summarized from these dialects ) Polabisch (also called Elbslawisch) and Polish to the group of "Lechitic languages" together. The name Lech (isch) goes back to the Polish Chronicle written in 1295 with the legend of Duke Lech as the alleged forefather of the Poles. So Lech was used as a Slavic name for Pole Lech / Lach .

The first script in the Slavic (Lechic) ​​language is a sentence written in Polish for the first time in the Heinrichauer Foundation Book from the year 1270 from the Heinrichau monastery .

The Lechic languages ​​are not to be confused with Lachish .

overview

• Polish ISO 639-1 code: pl, ISO 639-2 code: pol
  • Silesian language ISO 639-3 code: szl
• Elbe and Baltic Slavic languages
  • Pomoran
    • Kashubian ISO 639-2 code: csb
    • Slowinese ISO 639-2 code: sla
  • Polish ISO 639-3 code: pox

literature

• Stanisław Rospond: Gramatyka historyczna języka polskiego . PWN, Warsaw 2005, pp. 21-22
• Ewa Siatkowska: Rodzina języków zachodniosłowiańskich . PWN, Warsaw 1992, pp. 46-50

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laesir is the Old Norse term for the Ljachar, a people near the Vistula in Poland . In: Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157) . ISBN 978-0-8014-3694-9 , p. 471. The word here for Poles is 'Laesum' - the dative plural from a nominative plural 'Laesir' . In: The Ukrainian review , 1963, p. 70. (ef. Old Rus'ian ljaxy ) In: Omeljan Pritsak . Old Scandinavian sources other than the sagas . 1981, p. 300