WI:Prussia standardizes Mazovian and Silesian languages

I read that the dialects of Mazovia(which is also the language of Masuria) and Silesian are or were distinct varieties of Polish, Mazovian is already blended to the Modern Standard Polish because it contributed it although before it was distinct although Silesian is similar to Malopolskan dialects because it is not standard, Silesian is far from the Standard Polish language, is there a possibility of Mazovian and Silesian to be both standardized under the Prussian government with a POD of before Prussia was attacked by Napoleon, what would be the consequences if Prussia does that.
 
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AFAIK Prussia was interested in only one official language - German. And even if they tried, standarization of a language is not so easy and takes time. Look at Italy - I speak some Italian, but I always had problems with understanding southern Italians, and I can't understand Sardignian at all. Not to mention there actually already was a language which could have become a standard for Silesia and Masuria - Polish.
 
Hmmm... pre-1780s Prussia might do it. They had no problem with different languages. But why would they want to do that? As far as they were concerned, Silesia was working fine the way it was. Maybe if there was a problem with the Germanophone Silesian population... not sure.

I don't see any great chance of it happening after 1806, except maybe as a transparent ruse to counter Polish nationalism (which, by that time, would be unlikely to work - the Poles had the better propaganda)
 
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