Lach dialects

They are spoken in parts of Czech Silesia, the Hlučín Region, and northeastern Moravia,[1] as well as in some adjacent villages in Poland.

[3] Lachian is divided into numerous subdialects (Western, Eastern and Southern), it can therefore also be regarded as a dialect continuum, with limited mutual intelligibility between the eastern and western dialects.

[citation needed] Most Lachs, especially younger speakers, now speak standard Czech, and use it as a written language, while Lach remains the language of everyday speech.

[citation needed] The poet Óndra Łysohorsky is probably the best-known writer in a Lachian dialect.

In doing so, he contributed significantly to the development of the Lach literary language.

Map showing the distribution of the Lachian dialects (west) and the Cieszyn Silesian dialect (east) in the Czech-Polish-Slovak borderlands. [ image reference needed ]
Former Lach speaking places in modern-day Poland (yellow, percentage as of 1910)