Kashubian Puns

Guys I'm very curious. As far as I know these two are proper minorities of Poland. There are obviously others but these have sizable populations. Are they ethnically distinct minorities? I wonder cause I'm a Turkish citizen but ethnically Kurdish. Is the case similar to us or they are somewhat Polish?

As the title says I am thinking of creating a Kashubian team on career for 22 with Black and yellow colours based in Northern Poland and, like with Bilbao and Basque Players only using Kashubian players AKA Polish youth players whose names somewhat fit kashubian naming conventions. Bit weird I know but thought it could be fun, plus it's a region I love and with Arka Gdynia failing to get promoted the region is sorely lacking a north Polish team that isn't boring old Gdansk!

apologies for a weird post but thought I would share my enthusiasm and ask you guys for any suggestions based on what we have seen so far from the pitch notes and trailers!

I recently read this academic article on Kashubian. It discussed how the sounds that are represented by the letters/graphemes ò and ù developed from a process of diphthongization.

The article (as well as other resources on the internet like Wikipedia) transcribed these sounds as [wɛ] for ò and [wʉ] for ù.

This made me wonder, if the sounds emerged as a result of diphthongization, why aren't they transcribed as diphthongs? In other words, [u̯ɛ] for ò and [u̯ʉ] for ù.

Take for example the Slovak letter ô (which is pronounced like this). It also developed as a result of diphthongization. I've seen it transcribed as [u̯ɔ] or [ʊ̯ɔ], but never as [wɔ].

Is there a way for any of these ethnicities to have a modern independent state in Europe in the 21st century? I was thinking maybe if Czechoslovakia kept Carpathian-Ruthenia after ww2 and granted the same level of autonomy Slovakia had, Ruthenian identity would be much stronger and a state after the split in 1993 would arise, is this possible? What about the other ones? Is there a way for them to get a nation-state?

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Kashubia is a region in northern Poland and Kashubians (also known as Cassubians or Kashubs) are the people living there. Some of the Kashubians even say they are not Polish and that their national identity is Kashubian.

Kashubians are so called „people of the border lands”, so the people who, through the ages, lived on the territory that kept changing it’s country. Many of them became Germans, others assimilated with Poland. That’s why it’s very difficult to say who of the famous people can be called a Kashubian and who should be considered German or Pole of a Kashubian origin.

These days, some of the Kashubians kept their culture and their language and they take good care of them, others assimilated with Polish culture and they forgot all about it. Kashubian is a West Slavic language, but it sounds nothing like Polish, you cannot understand it at all, if you’ve never learnt it! You can even pass your matura exam from Kashubian (as one of the additional subjects you chose from), which is the most important exam that you have at the end of high school, before the university!

All around Poland, the most recognisable thing from the Kashubian culture is the embroidery. It has seven colours, each of them has a specific meaning. There are three shades of blue (from light blue to dark sapphire colour) which stand for the sky, the lake and the sea, green, that represents fields and forests, yellow – symbolizes the sun, red means love for your homeland and finally black – the hard work of the Kashubian people. Nowadays, this traditional embroidery is going through a renaissance,,,, it’s used as an embroidery or simply as a print on different fabrics, pottery, wooden jewellery boxes, furniture and other everyday products.

Cheers!

Dominika

I love those languages and I thought about it recently that it would be really interesting to listen to something like that.

By "modern" I mean non-folk. Popular music. You get it.

Hi there folks,

In the past I've typically only developed 100% original languages usually with only ancillary nods to real-life tongues, though for a more personal project I'm working on, I'd like to try and create a creole language between Scots Gaelic and Kashubian or Pomeranian, with a meeting point occurring sometime in the late middle ages to make a comparison to our timeline. Down the line I think I'd like to have dialects with one slightly more Slavic and the other more Celtic, but my main priority for now is a good middle-of-the-road creole to start off with.

Again, I'm kinda new with this variety of conlanging so any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!

Looking forward to seeing what y'all have to say. :D

Just wondering if anyone could be kind and point me to a resource listing Kashub names? They don't have to be distinctly Kashubian; Polish or German names that are used commonly by Kashubs would also be good. Or even just a list of names in the Gdańsk region.

Edit: And I mostly need last names, but first names are good too.