Their 'capital' city is Koscierzyna in Pomerania. Among the bigger towns, Gdynia contain the biggest percentage of the people of Kashub origins. The main occupation of the Kashub was fishing in the past and now is mainly tourism..
In the modern day some 200,000 Kashubians still speak Kashubian, a West Slavic language, together with Polish belonging to Lechitic[?] group of languages, mainly in northern Poland. In many towns and villages Kashubian is the second language, after Polish. The language appears in offices and on the streets and is also taught at schools.
See also: http://www.zk-p.pl (polish, kashubian, english) http://www.kaszubia.com (polish, german) http://www.republika.pl/modraglina/kaszlink (german, polish, english)
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