Historical Languages and Dialects
- primarily German, Ostpommersch variant of Low German
- in easternmost rural areas Kashubian
- Slovincian dialect in the rural areas of Leba (Łeba) and Lauenburg (Lębork), roughly Germanized by 1850.
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