| Kashubian kaszëbsczi |
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| Spoken in: |  Poland |
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| Region: | Pomerania | |
| Total speakers: | 50,000 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Pomeranian Kashubian |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | in official use in some communes of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | csb | |
| ISO 639-3: | csb | |
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Kashubian or Cassubian (Kashubian: kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa; Polish: język kaszubski) is one of the Lechitic languages, a subgroup of the Slavic languages. Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. The Lechitic languages include three languages spoken in Central Europe, mainly in Poland, and historically also in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages
Kashubian is assumed to have evolved from the language spoken by some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians, in the region of Pomerania, on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers. The Pomeranians (Pomeranen Pòmòrzónie Pomorzanie were a group of West Slavic Tribes who lived along the shore of the Baltic Sea between Oder Kashubians/Kashubs/Kaszubians (Kaszëbi Kaszubi also called Kassubians or Cassubians, are a West Slavic Ethnic group of north-central The Baltic Sea is a Brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N Latitude and from 20°E to 26°E Longitude. The Oder (known in Czech and Polish as Odra) is a River in Central Europe.
It is closely related to Slovincian, and both of them are dialects of Pomeranian. Slovincian is an extinct dialect of the Pomeranian language, spoken between the lakes Gardno (Gardersee and Łebsko (Lebasee in Pomerania For the Low German dialects also called Pomeranian see Pommersch. Though the Kashubian language can hardly be understood by Polish speakers, until recently many Polish linguists considered it a dialect of Polish, although this has been caused mostly by political decree. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland.
Similarly to Polish, Kashubian includes numerous loanwords from Low German, such as kùńszt (art), and some from German. A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one Language from another with little or no translation Low German or Low Saxon (in Germany: Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch; in Netherlands: Nedersaksisch or Nederduuts The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Other sources of loanwords include the Baltic languages, Russian and Polish. The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland.
The first printed documents in Kashubian date from the end of the 16th century. The modern orthography was first proposed in 1879.
In the 2002 census, 53,000 people in Poland declared that they mainly use Kashubian at home. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Research shows that many Kashubian-speaking parents use Polish rather than Kashubian at home, because they believe that if they spoke Kashubian, their children would find it more difficult to learn Polish. A number of schools in Poland teach in Kashubian as a lecture language, and it is used as an official alternative language for local administration purposes in parts of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Pomeranian Voivodeship (also known as Pomerania Province or by its Polish name of województwo pomorskie {{IPA-pl|p|o|'|m|o|r|s|k|j|e}} or simply Pomorskie Kashubian is also spoken by Kashubians living in Canada. Polish Canadians are Canadians of Polish ancestry According to the 2001 census by Statistics Canada, 817085 Canadians claim full or partial Polish ancestry
Gallery
 Bilingual sign in Polish and Kashubian in Pogórze, Puck County, Poland, on road from Gdynia to Rewa |
See also
- Pomeranian language
- Kashubian alphabet
- Kashubian-Pomeranian Association
- Pomerelia
- Gdańsk Pomerania
- Old Prussian language
External links
- Cassubia Slavica
- Wejherowo Land
- Following the trail of manor houses and castles of the Northern Kashubian Region
- Northern Kashubia Heritage
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