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Encyclopedia Britannica



KASHUBES (sing. Kaszub, plur. Kaszebe)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 693 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KASHUBES (sing. Kaszub, plur. Kaszebe) , a Slavonic people numbering about 200,000, and living on the borders of West Prussia and
Pomerania
 , along the Baltic
coast
  between Danzig and Lake
Garden
 , and inland as far as
Konitz
 . They have no literature and no history, as they consist of peasants and
fisher
 -men, the educated classes being mostly Germans or Poles. Their language has been held to be but a dialect of Polish, but it seems better to
separate
  it, as in some points it is quite independent, in some it offers a resemblance to the language of the Polabs (q.v.). This is most seen in the western dialect of the so-called Slovinci (of whom there are about 250 left) and Kabatki, whereas the eastern Kashube is more like Polish, which is encroaching upon and assimilating it. Lorentz calls the western dialect a language, and distinguishes 38 vowels. The
chief
  points of Kashube as against Polish are that all its vowels can be nasal instead of a and e only, that it has preserved quantity and a free
accent
 , has developed several
special
  vowels, e. g. o, iv, u, and has preserved the
original
  order, e.g. gard as against grod. The consonants are very like Polish. (See also Slows.)


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