Bilingual communes in Poland


The bilingual status of gminas 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 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 bilingual gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship:
Polish/Belarusian bilingual gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship:
Polish/Lemko bilingual names of localities in Małopolskie Voivodeship:

Image:Bielanka.jpg|Polish/Lemko place-name sign in Bielanka
Image:Ulica_Księdza_Kossak-Główczewskiego,_Jastarnia_-_001.JPG|Polish/Kashubian street name sign in Jastarnia
Image:Dolina_Jadwigi_znak.jpg|Polish/Kashubian road sign with the village name
Image:Oleksze1.jpg|Bilingual Polish/Belarusian sign in Oleksze
Image:Kosorowice.jpeg|Polish/German place-name sign in Kosorowice