TLO, Squonk, warpus, would you know anything about this?
Poland itself has less than 5% speakers of Polish?
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TLO, Squonk, warpus, would you know anything about this?
Poland itself has less than 5% speakers of Polish?
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Poland itself has less than 5% speakers of Polish?
As a foreign language, I figured most people viewing this thread would have been able to figure that out.
I was wrong.
Not everywhere is going to shrink
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=STAT/08/119
Says the "Proud Briton".
TheLastOne36
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Looks like it's time for some annexing!
TLO, Squonk, warpus, would you know anything about this?
I'm not a nationalist. And I wouldn't be dumb enough to paint Brzesc region in Belarus as polish. It is not. Its dialect is close to polish, and nearly all the population speaks polish more or less, but they are not Poles. On another hand, polish minority is much more represented in Grodno region. And it looks as if in this case, someone just painted polish minority along polish-belorusian border. While it is more complicated than that.
Polish minority around
The cities are badly placed too.
In general, the Brzesc case makes me believe someone was inspired by this map:
a wiki creation as well, which seems to be complete useless, at least when it comes to Poland. On one hand it paints polish minority where there's hardly any, and even where there was hardly any prior to ww2, but also it makes Silesian dialect a separate language, as well as the highlander sub-dialect; It shows Slovincians as still alive... it shows definitely bloated ideas about silesian dialect western extremities... it tends to make polish dialectal borders go along the voivodships' borders, which is naive, it treats polish silesian and czech silesian (laskie dialects) as one, silesian, language, which would be ok, if it didn't show the polish (silesian) linguistic area in Czech Republic as a "czech-polish" dialect of czech language (although with silesian G abbreviation)... indeed, when it comes to polish-ukrainian and polish-lithuanian border, it seems as if someone was annoyed about the fact that (after ww2 slaughters of Poles by Ukrainians and after expulsions, Action Vistula etc) linguistic border is the same as state one, and decided to "make it more interesting" with nonsense changes.
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Says the "Proud American".
Gelion
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Godwyn posted an amazing map! First, it seems that in the West Poles are distributed equally. In the East for some reason, the distruibution is very prescise. I wonder why? 
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Here is a map of Russian in the European Union
Actually, it's a map showing how many people can speak Russian. My parents still know Russian to some degree, but I can't even read their silly alphabet.
warpus
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But they speak Polish, which is why the map was coloured in in that area, right?
Quackers
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Give it 50-100 years.
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Give it 50-100 years.
I fail to see why would Czechia with 0.01% percent Muslim population be part of Eurabia, whereas 5-10% Muslim Austria wouldn't...
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Because the entire thing is idiotic?
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Even fantasy things should be at least internally coherent, even though magic doesn't exist
the colour was supposed to show regions with significant polish minority. This is not the case of Brzesc region.
gangleri2001
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Polish-speaking community in Barcelona? You've got to be kidding me. BTW, here's the Catalan map:
Red -> Native
Grey -> Less than 1%
warpus
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Polish-speaking minority.
gangleri2001 said:
There are 50,000 Poles in Spain. If at least half of them reside in Barcelona, then the marking on the map is probably justified.
The Population of the Barcelona Metropolitan area is roughly 5 million, according to Wiki, so even if all of them lived there, it would still be about 1% of the city's population. So no, it isn't that accurate.
gangleri2001
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The Population of the Barcelona Metropolitan area is roughly 5 million, according to Wiki, so even if all of them lived there, it would still be about 1% of the city's population. So no, it isn't that accurate.
It's 4 million, not 5. But anyways, I've never heard of a polish community in here. 50.000 in whole Spain? That's ok, but considering that 46 million people is the whole population of Spain and that polish people living in Spain haven't formed a community at all, I wouldn't have marked the map.
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