Józef Gara
Encyclopedia
Józef Gara is a retired miner
who speaks an endangered language
- Vilamovian, which has only 70 native speakers now, he also created the Vilamovian alphabet. He is an author of poems in that language too. In 2003 he published Zbiór wierszy oraz słownik języka wilamowskiego (A collection of poems and the dictionary of Vilamovian language). In 2004 he collected old Wilamowicean songs, corrected and extended the old ones with a view of releasing them. Between 2004 and 2006 he taught Vilamovian in a primary school in Wilamowice
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Miner
A miner is a person whose work or business is to extract ore or minerals from the earth. Mining is one of the most dangerous trades in the world. In some countries miners lack social guarantees and in case of injury may be left to cope without assistance....
who speaks an endangered language
Endangered language
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes an "extinct language"....
- Vilamovian, which has only 70 native speakers now, he also created the Vilamovian alphabet. He is an author of poems in that language too. In 2003 he published Zbiór wierszy oraz słownik języka wilamowskiego (A collection of poems and the dictionary of Vilamovian language). In 2004 he collected old Wilamowicean songs, corrected and extended the old ones with a view of releasing them. Between 2004 and 2006 he taught Vilamovian in a primary school in Wilamowice
Wilamowice
Wilamowice is a small town in southern Poland, situated in the Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship . The endangered language of Wymysorys is spoken here by about 70 native speakers, the majority of them elderly...
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Works
- Zbiór wierszy o wilamowskich obrzędach i obyczajach oraz Słownik języka wilamowskiego (A collection of poems and the dictionary of Vilamovian language), TIMEX printing house/Stowarzyszenie Na Rzecz Zachowania Dziedzictwa Kulturowego Miasta Wilamowice "Wilamowiane" (Association for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage of the City of Wilamowice "Wilamowiane"), Bielsko-Biała, 2004, ISBN 83-914917-8-1
- Kronika historyczna miasteczka Wilamowice (Historical chronicle of the town of Wilamowice), TIMEX printing house, Wilamowice, 2007
- "Wymysöjer śtytła" : miasteczko Wilamowice oraz jego osobliwości zawarte w zbiorze piosenek wilamowskich Józefa Gary ("Wymysöjer śtytła: Wilamowice town and its sights set on a set of Vilamovian songs of Józef Gara), Wilamowice: Miejsko-Gminny Ośrodek Kultury (Municipal-GminaGminaThe gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...
Culture Center), 2007.