Other languages used

The liturgical language of Tatars were (at least at the beginning of the twentieth century), Arabic and Turkish, while remaining in a fixed texts were often learned by heart, and they do not distinguish between their users, whether they are Arab or Turkish (Antonowicz 1968: 257

Antonowicz 1968 / komentarz/comment/r /
Антонович А. К. [Antonowicz] 1968. „Краткий обзор белорусских текстов, писанных арабским письмом”, w: В. В. Мартынов, Н. И. Толстой (red.) Полесье (Лингвистика. Археология. Топонимика). Москва: Наука, s. 256-299.

).
In the liturgy of the Orthodox and Neo-Uniate Churches, Church Slavonic is used.
The population speaking Eastern-Slavic Podlachian dialects also speak local Polish dialects (Czyżewski i Warchoł 1998

Czyżewski i Warchoł 1998 / komentarz/comment/r /
Czyżewski, Feliks & Stefan Warchoł 1998. Polskie i ukraińskie teksty gwarowe ze wschodniej Lubelszczyzny. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS.

, cf. http://www.gwarypolskie.uw.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=6&Itemid=16).

ISO Code

no code
in 2011, Jan Maksymiuk applied for a ISO 639-3 code for the Podlachian languages - the application was rejected (SIL 2011

SIL 2011 / komentarz/comment/r /
SIL 2011. Change request documentation for: 2011-013. [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2011-013&lang=pdl]

).
The Ethnologue refers to transitional Belarusian-Ukrainian dialects (Lewis 2009

Lewis 2009 / komentarz/comment/r /
Lewis, M. Paul (red.) 2009. The Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Sixteenth edition. Dallas: SIL International. [http://www.ethnologue.com/].

).
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger mentions Polesian as a vulnerable language.
The Linguascale encodes all Belarusian-Ukrainian transitional and Polesian varieties with: 53-AAA-edd.

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Podlachian and West Polesian

Other languages used