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  Slovincian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slovincian is an extinct dialect of the Pomeranian language, spoken between the lakes Gardno and Lebsko in Pomerania.
Slovincian died out as the everyday language of the community and had been replaced by Low German by the turn of the 20th century.
The Slovincian area was left in the borders of Germany.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slovincian   (524 words)

  
 Slovincian
The Slovincian language became extinct in the 20th century.
Slovincian was so closely related to Kashubian that it must be regarded as its dialect, but it is conventionally treated separately.
Slovincians regarded themseves as Kashubs-Lutherans and their language as Kashubian.
www.fastload.org /sl/Slovincian.html   (93 words)

  
 Slovincian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Slovincian died out as the everyday language of the community and had been replaced by Low German by the turn of the 20th century, however single words and expressions survived until the years after World War II.
Moreover, it was decided that German language will be used in the Church in Pomerania, instead of native language of people.
Slovincians began to ask for the right to leave for Germany, and virtually all families had emigrated to Germany by the 1980s.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Slovincian.htm   (631 words)

  
 Pomeranian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Another variety of Pomeranian, Slovincian became extinct in the beginning of the 20th century.
The Pomeranian language, and its only surviving form, Kashubian, traditionally haven't been recognized by the majority of Polish linguists and have been treated in Poland as "the most distinct dialect of Polish".
The bill passed by the Polish parliament in 2005 recognizes Kashubian as the only regional language in the Republic of Poland and provides for its use in official contexts in 10 communes where Kashubian speakers constitute at least 20 percent of the population.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pomeranian_language   (598 words)

  
 slovincian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He called them Slovincy, despite the fact that their language was so closely related to Kashubian that it could be regarded as its dialect.
Slovincians regarded themselves as Kashubs-Lutherans and their language as Kashubian.
The Slavic language was gradually reduced and replaced by German.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /slovincian.html   (267 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Slovincian : Slovincian language Slovincian : Slovincian language The Slovincian language became extinct in...
Slovincian language) Slovincian is an extinct dialect of the Pomeranian language, spoken between the lakes Gardno and Lebsko in Pomerania.
It is closely related to the Slovincian language, and both of them are Pomeranian language dialects.
slovincian_language.iqexpand.com   (662 words)

  
 biology - Polish language
In the western and northern territories, resettled in large measure by Poles from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union, the older generation speaks a dialect of Polish characteristic of the former eastern provinces.
The Polish language is the most widely-spoken of the Slavic language subgroup of Lekhitic languages which include Kashubian (and its extinct dialect/language Slovincian) and the also-extinct Polabian language.
The three languages and one language/dialect, along with Upper and Lower Sorbian, Czech and Slovakian, belong to the West branch of Slavic languages.
biologydaily.com /biology/Polish_language   (2081 words)

  
 Polish language - Biocrawler definition:Polish language - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Polish is the main representative of the Lekhitic branch of the Western Slavic languages.
It is by far the most widely used minority language in the Vilniaus Apskritis (Vilnius region) (26 percent of the population, according to the 2001 census results), but it is also present in other apskritis.
Mazovian shares some features with the Kashubian language, whose remaining speakers (estimates vary from 100,000 to over 200,000) live in and around the city of Gdansk near the Baltic Sea, predominantly to the west of the city.
biocrawler.com /biowiki/Polish_language   (2409 words)

  
 Polish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Polish is the main representative of the Lechitic branch of the Western Slavic languages.
The Polish language is the most widely-spoken of the Slavic language subgroup of Lechitic languages which include Kashubian (the only surviving dialect of Pomeranian language) and the extinct Polabian language.
The three languages, along with Upper and Lower Sorbian, Czech and Slovak, belong to the West branch of Slavic languages.
www.abitabouteverything.com /files/p/po/polish_language.html   (2473 words)

  
 Projekat Rastko - Kašubi / Kaszëbë / Kaszuby
The history and the present state of the Kashubian language including the discussion concerning its linguistic status is presented most comprehensively by Popowska-Taborska (1980) complemented by a long lits of publications on the subject.
Studies of the Kashubian literary language are fragmentary and mostly concered with spelling.
An etymological dictionary (by W. Boryś and H. Popowska-Taborska) and a dictionary of the extinct Slovincian dialect (by Z. Sobierajski) are forthcoming.
www.rastko.net /rastko-ka/content/view/191/25   (3268 words)

  
 Lekhitic languages --  Encyclopædia Britannica
West Slavic language belonging to the Lekhitic subgroup and closely related to Czech, Slovak, and the Sorbian languages of eastern Germany; it is spoken by the majority of the present population of Poland.
The Slavic language group is classified into three branches: the South Slavic branch, with two subgroups—Serbo-Croatian–Slovene and Bulgarian-Macedonian; the West Slavic branch, with three subgroups—Czech-Slovak, Sorbian, and Lekhitic (Polish and related tongues); and the East Slavic branch, comprising Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.
The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9047706   (685 words)

  
 Lekhitic languages --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
In the early Middle Ages, before their speakers had become Germanized, Pomeranian languages and dialects were spoken along the Baltic in an area extending from the lower Vistula River to the lower Oder River.
Kashubian and Slovincian survived into the 20th century; there were still a considerable number of native speakers of Kashubian in Poland and Canada in the 1990s.
The extinct Polabian language, which bordered the Sorbian dialects in eastern Germany, was spoken by the Slavic population of the Elbe River region until the 17th or 18th century; a dictionary and some phrases written in the language exist.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9047706   (774 words)

  
 info: Slovincians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Within the Pomeranian group, the Slovincians survived on the shores of Lakes Leba and Gardno until the beginning of the 20 th century.
thought to be kielbasa, pierogi and the four-letter andquot;D-word.andquot; The Slovincians were an Old Slavic group closely related to the Kashubs and inhabited an area of Pomerania around...
After 1945 Germanized Slovincians and Kashubians from the area of Gniewino and Bytów emigrated to Germany.
www.info-assicurazione.com /Slovincians.html   (764 words)

  
 Kashubian (Cashubian, Cassubian) language, alphabet and pronunciation
Kashubian is a member of the West Slavic group of Slavic languages with about 200,000 speakers and used as an everyday language by about 53,000 people.
Kashubian began to emerge as a distinct language during the 14th century.
The written form of the language currently in use developed from the one suggested by Florian Ceynowa in his book Zarés do grammatikj kasebsko-slovjnskjé mòvé (An Outline of the Grammar of the Kashubian-Slovincian Language), which was published in Poznań in 1879.
www.omniglot.com /writing/kashubian.htm   (274 words)

  
 Lekhitic languages : search word
The Lechitic languages include three or possibly four languages spoken in eastern Europe, principally in Poland.
(The precise classification of Slovincian is somewhat disputed).
This language group is a branch of the larger West Slavic language family.
www.searchword.org /le/lekhitic-languages.html   (136 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:CSB
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
There are transitional dialects between Kashubian Proper, Slovenian, and Polish.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=CSB   (95 words)

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