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KASHUBES (sing. Kaszub, plur. Kaszebe)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KASHUBES (sing. Kaszub, plur. Kaszebe) , a See also:Slavonic See also:people numbering about 200,000, and living on the See also:borders of See also:West See also:Prussia and See also:Pomerania, along the Baltic See also:coast between See also:Danzig and See also:Lake See also:Garden, and inland as far as See also:Konitz. They have no literature and no See also:history, as they consist of peasants and See also:fisher-men, the educated classes being mostly Germans or Poles. Their See also:language has been held to be but a See also:dialect of See also:Polish, but it seems better to See also:separate it, as in some points it is quite See also:independent, in some it offers a resemblance to the language of the See also:Polabs (q.v.). This is most seen in the western dialect of the so-called Slovinci (of whom there are about 250 See also: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 See also: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 See also:free See also:accent, has See also:developed several See also:special vowels, e. g. o, iv, u, and has preserved the See also:original See also:order, e.g. See also:gard as against grod. The consonants are very like Polish.

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