Slovincian language

Spoken in

• Indo-European Slavic Westslawisch Slovincian

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The Slowinski is an extinct West Slavic language in the 20th century. Together with the still spoken Kashubian and the Polabischen they formed a remnant of the Slavic languages ​​, which were originally spoken along the Baltic coast in Pomerania and north-east of the Elbe. Whether the Slowinski was a separate language or may be considered a dialect of Kashubian is debatable. Quite a few people in and out of the north-eastern Pomerania defined as Slovincians (also Lebakaschuben ), although they could not speak the language.

The research was aware of this small language community that lived in the North East Pomerania, especially in the parishes of Great Guard and Schmolsin district Stolp only in the middle of the 19th century. As first reported on it, the Russian Slavic Alexander Hilferding, visited him more Russian, German and Polish linguist the area. At the beginning of the 20th century, the language of the Slavic scholar Friedrich Lorentz was recorded. When the last speaker died, is not entirely clear, the last refuge of the village was apparently Klucken on Lebasee. Apart from a few terms that were incorporated into the regional Low German, spoke in 1945 only a few old people who Slowinski language. Some of them helped to communicate with the invading Red Army.

The Slowinski was a particularly archaic language in which some peculiarities had received, the Slav in most ( Western ) languages ​​do not appear at all (eg it had a free accent). In addition, however, it was also under strong influence of the Germans ( especially the Low German ), especially in vocabulary, but also in the syntax.