Kashubians

Kashubians
Kaszëbi
	Flag and coat of arms of Kashubia
	Population of Kashubians in Kashubia, 2005
Total population
	176,900 (2021)
Regions with significant populations
	Poland; Germany; United States (diaspora); Canada (diaspora)
Languages
	Kashubian, Polish
Religion
	Roman Catholicism, Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
	Other West Slavs; Especially other Lechites

The Kashubians (Kashubian: Kaszëbi; Polish: Kaszubi; German: Kaschuben),^[2] also known as Cassubians or Kashubs, are a Lechitic (West Slavic) ethnic group native to the historical region of Pomerania, including its eastern part called Pomerelia, in north-central Poland.^[3] Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia. They speak the Kashubian language, which is classified as a separate language^[4] closely related to Polish.

The Kashubs are closely related to the Poles and sometimes classified as their subgroup. Moreover, the vast majority of Kashubians declare themselves as Poles and many of them have a Polish-Kashubian identity. The Kashubs are grouped with the Slovincians as Pomeranians. Similarly, the Slovincian (now extinct) and Kashubian languages are grouped as Pomeranian languages, with Slovincian (also known as Łeba Kashubian) either a distinct language closely related to Kashubian,^[5] or a Kashubian dialect.^[6]^[7]

^ "Wstępne wyniki NSP 2021 w zakresie struktury narodowo-etnicznej oraz języka kontaktów domowych" (PDF). Statistics Poland. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
^ "Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kashubes" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 693.
^ Agata Grabowska, Pawel Ladykowski, The Change of the Kashubian Identity before Entering the EU, 2002 [1]
^ "Język kaszubski - Mniejszości Narodowe i Etniczne". Retrieved 22 November 2020.
^ Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, Languages in Contact, Rodopi, 2000, p. 329, ISBN 90-420-1322-2
^ Christina Yurkiw Bethin, Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory, pp. 160ff, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-59148-1.
^ Edward Stankiewicz, The Accentual Patterns of the Slavic Languages, Stanford University Press, 1993, p. 291, ISBN 0-8047-2029-0

[1] "Wstępne wyniki NSP 2021 w zakresie struktury narodowo-etnicznej oraz języka kontaktów domowych" (PDF). Statistics Poland. 11 April 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.

[2] "Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kashubes" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 693.

[3] Agata Grabowska, Pawel Ladykowski, The Change of the Kashubian Identity before Entering the EU, 2002 [1]

[4] "Język kaszubski - Mniejszości Narodowe i Etniczne". Retrieved 22 November 2020.

[Gilbers2-5] Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, Languages in Contact, Rodopi, 2000, p. 329, ISBN 90-420-1322-2

[Bethin2-6] Christina Yurkiw Bethin, Slavic Prosody: Language Change and Phonological Theory, pp. 160ff, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-59148-1.

[Stankiewicz2-7] Edward Stankiewicz, The Accentual Patterns of the Slavic Languages, Stanford University Press, 1993, p. 291, ISBN 0-8047-2029-0

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