Kashubian Informational Site

Gdańsk 2016

Thanks to the translation efforts of Zbigniew Jankowski Gdańsk has lately published Kashubian version of its Web site promoting the city’s aspirations to become the European Capital of Culture in 2016.

Although the idea of promoting the diverse cultures of Europe has been born in 1995, it’s been only lately that two separate European cities are being nominated concurrently: one from the original EU countries and one from the states that have recently joined the Union.  In this case, the contestants will represent Spain and from Poland.

What is still disappointing (and we’re also referring here to the City of Gdańsk homepage we wrote about last year) is the static nature of the Kashubian-language portals. Aside from short news stories, the content is largely stagnant; still, the new Kashubian Web site is a step in the right direction and supports the ultimate goal of the language’s presence on the WWW.