Florian Biesik (March 4, 1849 in

Wilamowice Wilamowice (; earlier ''Willamowice''; ; , ) is a rural town in southern Poland, situated in the Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town is inhabited by a Germanic ethnic group of Vilamovians, who speak the highly endangered Wymysorys l ...

– March 13, 1926 in

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) created a literary standard for

Vilamovian Wymysorys (, ), also known as Vilamovian, Wilamowicean, or Wilmesaurisch, is a West Germanic language spoken by the Vilamovians, Vilamovian ethnic minority in the town of Wilamowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland ( in Wymysorys), on the border ...

, trying to prove it did not derive from

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, but possibly Frisian,

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. An

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civil servant, he was sent to the

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port of

, where he spent most of his professional life as the director of the local post office. After retiring, he moved to the village of

Aurisina Aurisina (until 1923 ''Nabresina'', ) is a town in the karst part of the comune of Duino-Aurisina (Slovene: ) near Trieste, Italy, in a region of Slovene minority. It lies 15 kilometres northwest of Trieste, and according to the 2003 census had a ...

near the coastal resort of

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, where he frequented the cultural circles of the local Slovene community.

References

1849 births 1926 deaths People from Wilamowice Austrian people of Polish descent Linguists from Austria Linguists from Austria-Hungary 19th-century linguists {{austria-linguist-stub