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Lublinians
The Lublinians (Polish: ''Lubliniacy'') are a subethnic group of the Polish people, who reside in the historic region of Lesser Poland, in the area of the city of Lublin. They use their own dialect, which belongs to the Lesser Poland dialect of the Polish language. Like most Poles, the Lubliniacy are Roman Catholics. Polish linguist Jan Stanislaw Bystron claimed that the Lubliniacy should be regarded as a group that belongs to the region of Kresy Wschodnie (Eastern Borderlands), as they resided in areas which had previously been inhabited by Eastern Slavs. Furthermore, the Lubliniacy were under influence of neighboring province of Mazovia. Examples of local architecture and other artefacts are kept at the Museum of Lublin Village in Lublin. Polish ethnographer Janusz Kamocki divided the Lubliniacy into the following subgroups: * Powisle Lubelskie, along the Vistula river, which has been under strong influence of the neighboring Mazovia, * Bilgoraj, which is strongly tied to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Z Lubeskie
Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the Latin alphabet. It is used in the modern English alphabet, in the alphabets of other Western European languages, and in others worldwide. Its usual names in English are ''zed'' (), which is most commonly used in British English, and ''zee'' (), most commonly used in American English, with an occasional archaic variant ''izzard'' ()."Z", ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993); "zee", ''op. cit''. Name In most English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the letter's name is ''zed'' , reflecting its derivation from the Greek letter ''zeta'' (this dates to Latin, which borrowed Y and Z from Greek), but in American English its name is ''zee'' , analogous to the names for B, C, D, etc., and deriving from a late 17th-century English dialecta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
