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Kashubian Language
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Kashubian or Cassubian  is a Lechitic language, a kind of Slavic language. 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.

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There are approximately 50,000 native speakers of Kashubian today. The language is considered to have a Level 1 transmission by the Endangered Languages Project. First generation adults know and speak the language, second generation adults know the language but do not speak it regularly, and third generation children have minimal knowledge on Kashubian from school. Kashubian has around 50 different dialects, all classified into a northern, central, or southern grouping. The language shares syntactic similarities with Polish, but has phonological, vocabulary, and word-formation differences.

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Kashubian or Cassubian  is a Lechitic language, a kind of Slavic language. 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.

There are approximately 50,000 native speakers of Kashubian today. The language is considered to have a Level 1 transmission by the Endangered Languages Project. First generation adults know and speak the language, second generation adults know the language but do not speak it regularly, and third generation children have minimal knowledge on Kashubian from school. Kashubian has around 50 different dialects, all classified into a northern, central, or southern grouping. The language shares syntactic similarities with Polish but has phonological, vocabulary, and word-formation differences.