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Nowadays a great majority of people living in Pamaria region are Polish (approximately 94-99%). The ammount of inhabitants who declares Pomorian as their nationality is very low - 4-6% in a small area in the west and 2-3% in the rest territory. Kashubians are also present, almost exclusively in the north-west (0.5-1%). In the south-eastern territories where Pomorians originated from almost all the inhabitants are Polish nowadays. This is the result of continuous wars with Germans and Poles, internal conflicts and variuos plagues during the Middle Ages and in the XXth century. During their later history Pomorian people suffered discrimination and repression and were always associated with poverty and poor education. They were also challenged by Christian missionaries during the Middle Ages for being pagans. | Nowadays a great majority of people living in Pamaria region are Polish (approximately 94-99%). The ammount of inhabitants who declares Pomorian as their nationality is very low - 4-6% in a small area in the west and 2-3% in the rest territory. Kashubians are also present, almost exclusively in the north-west (0.5-1%). In the south-eastern territories where Pomorians originated from almost all the inhabitants are Polish nowadays. This is the result of continuous wars with Germans and Poles, internal conflicts and variuos plagues during the Middle Ages and in the XXth century. During their later history Pomorian people suffered discrimination and repression and were always associated with poverty and poor education. They were also challenged by Christian missionaries during the Middle Ages for being pagans. | ||
The process of assimilation had most impact on the children who wanted a better life and felt asshamed of their people because of stereotypes. Soon the old Pomorian traditions became almost completely forgotten remaining only in distant villages which were cut from the rest of the world due to absence of any means of communication at that time. | The process of assimilation had most impact on the children who wanted a better life and felt asshamed of their people because of stereotypes. Soon the old Pomorian traditions became almost completely forgotten remaining only in distant villages which were cut from the rest of the world due to absence of any means of communication at that time. | ||
A lot of Pomorians do not want to recognise this name as their nationality. Usually Western Pomorians call themselves ''pumurėnė'' (/pu.mu.ˈreː.neː/) and other groups - ''vysilionė/vyslionė'' (/ʋiː.ɕi.ˈʎoː.neː/). Central Pomorians are ''pamarė'' (/pa.ˈmaː.rʲeː/) but sometimes also ''viestlionė'' because they mostly live near the Vistula river. Eastern Pomorians are ''suvylki'' (/su.ˈwɨl.ki/) after the land they inhabit and South-Eastern are ''ezerovė'' (/ɛ.zɛ.ˈroː.veː/) after the word ''ezerå'' which means "lake". They even use different orthographies for Western and Eastern dialects which are sometimes considered being different languages and these dialects have a low mutual intelligibility between each other which only sharpen the differences. | |||
==Language== | ==Language== | ||
Throughout its history Pamaria was inhabitted by different ethnic groups and many languages were spoken there with main one being German. After the World War II a number of German native speakers decreased significantly within just a decade. Nowadays the most commonly spoken language is Polish (80-99%), at least 5 to 10% of people in the area are able to speak Pomorian on a basic level but only 4000 people speak Pomorian natively | Throughout its history Pamaria was inhabitted by different ethnic groups and many languages were spoken there with main one being German. After the World War II a number of German native speakers decreased significantly within just a decade. Nowadays the most commonly spoken language is Polish (80-99%), at least 5 to 10% of people in the area are able to speak Pomorian on a basic level but only 4000 people speak Pomorian natively or most of the time, almost all being at the age of 50 or above. Despite current revitalization efforts most Pomorian children do not speak Pomorian at all or know some basic words/can say few sentences in it. | ||
[[Category:Pamarėska]] | [[Category:Pamarėska]] | ||