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Kashubian language

Kashubian
Spoken in:Poland
Canada
Total speakers: 0.2 Million
Ranking:not ranked
Genetic
classification:
Indo-European
 Slavic
  West
   Lekhitic
    Kashubian
Official status
Official language of:in some counties of Pomeranian Voivodship, Poland,
ISO 639-2: sla
SIL: CSB

Kashubian, Cassubian (one of the Pomeranian dialects) is one of the Lekhitic languages, which is a group of Slavonic languages.

It is assumed that in year 1000 it was spoken by the some tribes of Pomeranians called Kashubians in the region of Pomerania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Odra rivers.

In 2000 it has some 200,000 speakers mainly in Eastern Pomerania in north Poland.

Sometimes called the dialect of Polish.

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