Silesian National Publishing House () is the first-ever publishing house specializing in producing books in the

Silesian language Silesian, occasionally called Upper Silesian, is an ethnolect of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic group spoken by part of people in Upper Silesia. Its vocabulary was significantly influenced by Central German due to the existence of numerou ...

and on all matters (Upper) Silesian. It was founded in 2003 in

Zabrze Zabrze (; German: 1915–1945: , full form: , , ) is an industrial city put under direct government rule in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It lies in the western part of the Metropolis GZM, a metropolis with a population of around 2 m ...

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, where it is registered under the Polish name, Narodowa Oficyna Śląska. Its owner and founder, Andrzej Roczniok was the initiator of to the codification of the Silesian language, and remains the main contributor to this process. He also applied for an

ISO 639-3 ISO 639-3:2007, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages'', is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for ...

code for Silesian, which was granted as szl in 2007. In the same year the Ślōnsko Nacyjno Ôficyno began publishing the first-ever periodical in Silesian and

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, '' Ślůnsko Nacyjo'' (Silesian Nation). The publishing house's bestseller has been Dariusz Jerczyński’s extensive monograph, ''Historia Narodu Śląskiego'' (A History of the Silesian Nation, 2003), which actually commenced the publishing activities of the Ślōnsko Nacyjno Ôficyno.

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Ślōnsko Nacyjno Ôficyno – archiwum
narodowaoficynaslaska.friko.pl
Publikacyje ôd Ślōnskij Nacyjnyj Ôficyny
silesiana.sellingo.pl * Book publishing companies of Poland Mass media in Zabrze Silesian language {{publisher-stub