Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Maps -- 1. General information on the Kashubians and Kashubian dialects -- 2. Northwestern variant of the Polish-Pomeranian phonemic system of the twelfth century -- 3. The thirteenth to fifteenth centuries: the beginning of an autonomous Kashubian development, the consolidation of the northwestern border of the Kashubian linguistic area -- 4. The sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: the consolidation of the southeastern border, the beginning of the internal differentiation -- 5. The eighteenth to twentieth centuries: further internal differentiation -- 6. Basic phonological patterns of contemporary Kashubian -- Bibliography -- 7. Chrestomathy -- 8. Indexes and glossaries