Kashubian language

Kashubian
Cassubian
Kaszëbsczi jãzëk
Native to	Poland
Region	Pomerania
Ethnicity	Kashubs
Native speakers	100,800
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Kashubian
Early form	Pomeranian
Official status
Official language in	In official use, as a regional language, in some communes of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Regulated by	Kashubian Language Council
Language codes
ISO 639-2	csb
ISO 639-3	csb
ELP	Kashubian

Kashubian or Cassubian ^[1] is a Lechitic language, a kind of Slavic language.^[2][3] It is spoken in the Polish region of Pomerania.

Today the language is taught in some state schools. Since 2005 it has been protected in Poland as a regional language. It is the only language in Poland with this status. The status was given by an act of Polish Parliament on January 6, 2005.

1. ↑ Kashubian: kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa; Polish: język kaszubski, język pomorski, język kaszubsko-słowiński
2. ↑ Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, Language and Nationalism in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2000, p.199, ISBN 0198236719
3. ↑ About Languages Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine - University of Leipzig