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Bilingual communes in Poland
The bilingual status of gminas (municipalities) in Poland is regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish. So far 44 gminas have done this:
Polish/German
Polish/German bilingual gminas (Gemeinden) in Other gminas in Opole Voivodeship and Silesian Voivodeship which would be permitted by the Act to make German an auxiliary language are Olesno and Pawłowiczki.
Polish/Kashubian
Polish/Kashubian bilingual gminas in Pomeranian Voivodeship:
Polish/Lithuanian
Polish/Lithuanian bilingual gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship:
Polish/Belarusian
Polish/Belarusian bilingual gminas in Podlaskie Voivodeship:
Polish/Lemko
Polish/Lemko bilingual names of localities in Małopolskie Voivodeship:
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<Gallery> File:[Bielanka](https://bliptext.com/articles/bielanka-gorlice-county).jpg|Polish/Lemko place-name sign in [Bielanka](https://bliptext.com/articles/bielanka-gorlice-county) File:Ulica_Księdza_Kossak-Główczewskiego,_[Jastarnia](https://bliptext.com/articles/jastarnia)_-_001.JPG|Polish/Kashubian street name sign in [Jastarnia](https://bliptext.com/articles/jastarnia) File:Dolina_Jadwigi_znak.jpg|Polish/Kashubian road sign with the village name ([Dolina Jadwigi](https://bliptext.com/articles/dolina-jadwigi)) File:[Oleksze](https://bliptext.com/articles/oleksze)1.jpg|Bilingual Polish/Belarusian sign in [Oleksze](https://bliptext.com/articles/oleksze) File:[Kosorowice](https://bliptext.com/articles/kosorowice).jpeg|Polish/German place-name sign in [Kosorowice](https://bliptext.com/articles/kosorowice) </Gallery>This article is derived from Wikipedia and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. View the original article.
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