The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: CSB
ISO 639-2: sla
| Population | A few thousand speakers. Most of the ethnic group of over 100,000 speak a regional variety of Polish (1993 Tapani Salminen). Population total both countries 3,000 or more. |
| Region | The left bank of the Lower Vistula in north central Poland, near the Baltic coast, west of the Bay of Gdansk, and a narrow strip inland, southwest from Gdynia. Also spoken in Canada. |
| Alternate names | KASZUBSKI, CASHUBIAN, CASSUBIAN |
| Dialects | KASHUBIAN PROPER, SLOVINCIAN. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Slavic, West, Lechitic. |
| Comments | German influences in the language. There are transitional dialects between Kashubian Proper, Slovenian, and Polish. Few children speakers of Kashubian Proper. The Slovincian dialect is extinct. NT 1995. |
