Bilingual municipalities 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:

German

Polish/German bilingual gminas 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.

Kashubian

Polish/Kashubian bilingual gminas in Pomeranian Voivodeship:

Lithuanian

Polish/Lithuanian bilingual gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship:

Belarusian

Polish/Belarusian bilingual gminas in Podlaskie Voivodeship:

Lemko

Polish/Lemko bilingual names of localities in Małopolskie Voivodeship: