Editing Kashubian language (section)

===Americas===
During the [[Kashubian diaspora]] of 1855–1900, 115,700 Kashubians emigrated to [[North America]], with around 15,000 emigrating to [[Brazil]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Statystyka ludności kaszubskiej|last=Ramułt|first=Stefan|year=1899|location=Krakow|pages=243}}</ref> Among the Polish community of [[Renfrew County, Ontario]], Kashubian is widely spoken to this day, despite the use of more formal Polish by parish priests.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blank |first1=Joshua C. |title=Creating Kashubia: History, Memory and Identity in Canada's First Polish Community |date=2016 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=9780773547209 |url=https://www.mqup.ca/creating-kashubia-products-9780773547209.php |access-date=2019-12-12 |archive-date=2019-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212034412/https://www.mqup.ca/creating-kashubia-products-9780773547209.php |url-status=live }}</ref> In [[Winona, Minnesota]], which Ramułt termed the "Kashubian Capital of America",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kashubian Capital of America |url=http://bambenek.org/winona-2/kashubian-capital-of-america/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=bambenek.org |archive-date=2017-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809043153/http://bambenek.org/winona-2/kashubian-capital-of-america/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Kashubian was regarded as "poor Polish," as opposed to the "good Polish" of the parish priests and teaching sisters. Consequently, Kashubian failed to survive Polonization and died out shortly after the mid-20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bambenek.org/winona-2/congregational-history-of-st-stans/|title=A Congregational History of Saint Stan's|last=Stolpa|first=James|date=2005|access-date=2017-08-08|archive-date=2017-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809043031/http://bambenek.org/winona-2/congregational-history-of-st-stans/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Kashubian language and nationality.png|thumb|center|600px|Kashubian language [[Pomeranian Voivodeship]], Poland (2011 census)]]