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july '19: the polish baltic sea pt. IX - kluki, a slovincian village.

a random, but pretty cool gas station near  smołdzino . it looked so typically soviet in style. on our last day in poland we decided to visit a little village called kluki , which is also an outdoor museum . kluki was the last village in pomerania in which the language of the slovincian tribe was spoken, which is now an extinct language. the slovincian people actually associated with the bigger tribe of the kashubians , they only differed in their belief systems as the kashubians were catholic and the slovincians were protestant. their language also was a bit different from the kashubian's, though not by much. it is considered a dialect of the kashubian language now, which is a language that is closely related to polish, but has low german and old prussian elements in it. it is sometimes considered as a dialect of polish. learning about the slovincian people and their history was super interesting, especially considering that this tribe basically is an extinct one. it was a west sl...