Editing Kashubian language (section)

==Education==
Throughout the communist period in Poland (1948-1989), Kashubian greatly suffered in education and social status. Kashubian was represented as folklore and prevented from being taught in schools. Following the collapse of communism, attitudes on the status of Kashubian have been gradually changing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ies.ee/iesp/grabowska.pdf |title=The Institute for European Studies, Ethnological institute of UW |access-date=2014-10-21 |archive-date=2003-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030320014218/http://www.ies.ee/iesp/grabowska.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> It has been included in the program of school education in [[Kashubia]] although not as a language of teaching or as a required subject for every child, but as a foreign language taught 3 hours per week at parents' explicit request. Since 1991, it is estimated that there have been around 17,000 students in over 400 schools who have learned Kashubian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pl.languagesindanger.eu/book-of-knowledge/pakiet-dla-szkol-o-jezykach-mniejszosciowych/jezykowa-mozaika-ziem-polskich/jezyk-kaszubski/|title=język kaszubski {{!}} pl.languagesindanger.eu|website=pl.languagesindanger.eu|access-date=2016-05-02|archive-date=2016-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602110359/http://pl.languagesindanger.eu/book-of-knowledge/pakiet-dla-szkol-o-jezykach-mniejszosciowych/jezykowa-mozaika-ziem-polskich/jezyk-kaszubski/|url-status=live}}</ref> Kashubian has some limited usage on public radio and had on public television. Since 2005, Kashubian has enjoyed legal protection in Poland as an official [[regional language]]. It is the only language in Poland with that status, which was granted by the ''Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Language'' of the [[Polish Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU20050170141|title=Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych|first=Kancelaria Sejmu|last=RP|access-date=2013-12-17|archive-date=2012-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118150023/http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU20050170141|url-status=live}}</ref> The act provides for its use in official contexts in ten communes in which speakers are at least 20% of the population.<ref>G. Stone: Slav outposts in Central European history : the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs, London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016, p. 348</ref> The recognition means that heavily populated Kashubian localities have been able to have road signs and other amenities with Polish and Kashubian translations on them.