What is Kashubian language?
{{Infobox Language | name = Kashubian | nativename = Kaszëbsczi jãzëk | familycolor = Indo-European | states = {{POL}} | region = [[Pomerania]] | speakers = 100,800 | fam2 = [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]] | fam3 = [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] | fam4 = [[West Slavic languages|West Slavic]] | fam5 = [[Lechitic languages|Lechitic]] | fam6 = | nation = In official use, as a [[regional language]], in some communes of [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], [[Poland]] | agency = [[Kashubian Language Council]] | iso2 = csb | iso3 = csb | ethnicity = Kashubs | ancestor = Pomeranian | altname = Cassubian }} '''Kashubian''' or '''Cassubian''' <ref>{{lang-csb|kaszëbsczi jãzëk, pòmòrsczi jãzëk, kaszëbskò-słowińskô mòwa}}; {{lang-pl|język kaszubski, język pomorski, język kaszubsko-słowiński}}</ref> is a [[Lechitic language]], a kind of [[Slavic language]].<ref name=Barbour>Stephen Barbour, Cathie Carmichael, ''Language and Nationalism in Europe'', Oxford University Press, 2000, p.199, {{ISBN|0198236719}}</ref><ref name=Faska>[http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sorb/seiten/eng/03/language.html About Languages] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006082825/http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~sorb/seiten/eng/03/language.html |date=2014-10-06 }} - [[University of Leipzig]]</ref> It is spoken in the [[Poland|Polish]] region of [[Pomerania]]. Today the language is [[teaching|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. == References == {{reflist}} {{InterWiki|code=csb}} {{commonscat|Kashubian language}} {{Slavic languages}} {{authority control}} [[Category:West Slavic languages]] [[Category:Languages of Poland]] {{europe-stub}} [[Category:Kashubia|language]]