Cassubian language
Poland
Canada
| Total speakers: | 0.2 Million |
| Ranking: | not ranked |
Genetic
classification: |
Indo-European
Slavic
West
Lekhitic
Kashubian
|
| Official status |
|---|
| Official language of: | no country (in official use 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 are a group of Slavonic languages.
It is assumed that it 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.
In 2000 it has some 200,000 speakers mainly in Eastern Pomerania in north Poland.
Sometimes called a dialect of Polish.
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