Język polski na Komarowszczyźnie: przeszłość, teraźniejszość, przyszłość (wnioski z badań terenowych w rejonie miadziolskim obwodu mińskiego na Białorusi)

The article is devoted to the situation of the Polish language in Kamarova (the village of Kamarova and neighbouring villages) located in the Myadzyel district of the Minsk region in the north-west of Belarus. It is a research area which appeared in my scientific interests for the first time in 2010, but was known to me much earlier, because I was born and grew up in this part of Belarus. My own memory and regularly conducted research of a linguistic and identity nature make it possible not only to describe the fate of the Polish language and Polishness in this region, but also to trace the changes occurring in the constantly changing reality over several decades. The illustrative material are fragments of autobiographical narra¬tives recorded during the exploration of the mentioned area.