The Kashubian language - a minority language spoken in borderlands as it was and as it is today

• Authors: Jadwiga Zieniukowa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents in a diachronic and synchronic perspective a minority language (regional) which has existed for centuries in the borderland of cultures and languages - the ethnolect of Kashubians, indigenous, Slavic people living in Gdansk Pomerania - and the history of its contacts with German (unrelated language) and Polish (an example of a Slavic-Slavic borderland); in case of its contact with, foremost, the official version of the German language there was a language conflict. There exists a language continuum between the Kashubian language and the Polish dialects from Masovia and Wielkopolska. They coexisted and complemented each other functionally for a long time.

Keywords

EN

Kashubian language; minority languages; regional languages; language contact; linguistic borderlands

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 43-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jadwiga Zieniukowa

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic