Editing Slovincian language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct West Slavic language}}
{{Distinguish| Slovene language|Slovak language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Slovincian
| nativename       = slôvjinskjy jãzëk{{sfn|Lorentz|1908|pp=391}}{{sfn|Lorentz|1912|pp=1520}}
| states           = [[Poland]], [[Germany]]
| region           = [[Pomerania]]
| extinct          = 20th century
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
| fam3             = [[Slavic languages|Slavic]]
| fam4             = [[West Slavic languages|West Slavic]]
| fam5             = [[Lechitic languages|Lechitic]]
| fam6             = [[Pomeranian language|Pomeranian]]
| glotto           = slov1270
| glottorefname    = Slovincian
| lingua           = 53-AAA-ca
| map              = Distribution of the Slovincian language in the 20th century, in red.png
| map2             = Lang Status 01-EX.svg
| mapcaption       = The Slovincian ethnolect in the north west of the Kashubian region at the beginning of the 20th century
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Slovincian is an extinct language according to the classification system of the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}<ref>{{cite report |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |publisher=UNESCO |edition=3rd |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026 |date=2010 |page=25}}</ref>
}}

'''Slovincian''' (Slovincian: ''slôvjinskjy'', {{IPA|zlw|slɵˈvjinskjɪ|IPA|cat=no}}; {{langx|pl|słowiński}} {{IPA|pl|swɔˈvij̃skʲi|}}; {{langx|csb|słowińsczi}} {{IPA|csb|swɔˈviɲst͡ɕi|}}; {{langx|de|Slowinzisch}}) is an extinct language formerly spoken by the [[Slovincians]] living between lakes [[Lake Gardno|Gardno]] and [[Lake Łebsko|Łebsko]] near [[Słupsk]] in [[Pomerania]].{{sfn|Lorentz|1903|pp=1–2}}

Slovincian is classified either as a language (first by [[Friedrich Lorentz]]),{{sfn|Gilbers|Nerbonne|Schaeken|2000|pp=329}} or as a [[Kashubian language|Kashubian]] dialect{{sfn|Bethin|1998|pp=160ff}}{{sfn|Stankiewicz|1993|pp=291}}{{sfn|Hulst|Bossong|1999|pp=837}}{{sfn|Rudnicki|1913|pp=13}} or variant.{{sfn|Gilbers|Nerbonne|Schaeken|2000}}{{sfn|Sussex|Cubberley|2006|pp=97}} Slovincian and Kashubian are both classified as [[Pomeranian language|Pomeranian]].{{sfn|Gilbers|Nerbonne|Schaeken|2000}}{{sfn|Sussex|Cubberley|2006|pp=97}} See [[#Classification|below]].

Slovincian became [[Extinct language|extinct]] in the early twentieth century ultimately due to stigmatization from Germans.{{sfn|Rudnicki|1913|pp=3—4}}{{sfn|Gilbers|Nerbonne|Schaeken|2000}}{{sfn|Sussex|Cubberley|2006|pp=97}} However, individual words and expressions survived until after [[World War II]], when the region [[Former eastern territories of Germany|became Polish]]. Some Slovincians were [[Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland after World War II|expelled along with the Germans]].{{sfn|Comrie|Corbett|2002|pp=762}} Of those allowed to stay, a few elderly people had fragmentary knowledge of Slovincian until the 1950s.{{sfn|Comrie|Corbett|2002|pp=762}}

It is disputed whether Slovincians actually used that name, given to them by the Russian academic [[Aleksander Hilferding]], for themselves. The synonym ''Lebakaschuben'' ([[Łebsko lake|Łebsko]] Kashubians) is also used. Some scholars believe that Slovincians regarded themselves merely as Lutheran [[Kashubians]] and their language as Kashubian. Nevertheless, the name "Slovincian" prevails in literature and is also used officially, for example in ''Słowiński Park Narodowy'' ([[Slovincian National Park]]), a protected area on the Polish Pomeranian coast.