Editing Kashubians (section)

===Today===
[[File:Witamiwilno.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Polish-Canadians wearing traditional Kashubian costumes in [[Wilno, Ontario]], the oldest Polish settlement in Canada.]]
In 2005, Kashubian was for the first time made an official subject on the Polish [[matura]] exam (roughly equivalent to the English A-Level and French Baccalaureat).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Poszytek|first=Paweł Poszytek|date=2005|title=Language education in Poland: National and regional language, foreign languages and languages of national and ethnic minorities|url=https://rm.coe.int/language-education-policy-profile-poland-country-report/16807b3b4a|journal=Poland Ministry of National Education|access-date=26 March 2019|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090416/https://rm.coe.int/language-education-policy-profile-poland-country-report/16807b3b4a|url-status=live}}</ref> This development was seen as an important step in the official recognition and establishment of the language. Today, in some towns and villages in northern Poland, Kashubian is the second language spoken after [[Polish language|Polish]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-poland.html|title=What Languages are Spoken in Poland?|work=WorldAtlas|access-date=27 September 2017|language=en|archive-date=28 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928060013/http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-poland.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and it is taught in some regional schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.omniglot.com/writing/kashubian.htm|title=Kashubian language, alphabet and pronunciation|website=www.omniglot.com|access-date=27 September 2017|archive-date=28 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928060049/https://www.omniglot.com/writing/kashubian.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Since 2005 Kashubian enjoys legal protection in Poland as an official [[regional language]]. It is the only tongue in Poland with this status. It was granted by an act of the [[Polish Parliament]] on 6 January 2005. Old [[Kashubian culture]] has partially survived in architecture and folk crafts such as [[pottery]], plaiting, [[embroidery]], amber-working, sculpturing and glasspainting.

In the 2011 census, 233,000 people in Poland declared their identity as Kashubian, 216,000 declaring it together with Polish and 16,000 as their only national-ethnic identity.<ref name="stat"/> [[Kaszëbskô Jednota]] is an association of people who have the latter view.