Farther Pomerania - Historical Languages and Dialects

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.

Read more about this topic:  Farther Pomerania

Famous quotes containing the words historical and/or languages:

    “What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.”
    —Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)