Definition of "Pomeranian"

In my 2002 research project I focused on the documentation of the Pomeranian Low German as spoken in the state of Wisconsin.

Alexandra Jacob, American Pommersch – Pommern im linguistischen Erbe Wisconsins, in: 2008, Josef Raab, Jan Wirrer (eds.), Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA / The German Presence in the U.S.A., p. 627ff., here p. 627

This was expressed by a Pomeranian Low German speaker born in 1903 in Hamburg, Marathon County:[...]

Antje Petty, Immigrant Languages and Education: Wisconsin's German Schools, in: 2013, Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, Joseph Salmons (eds.), Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State, The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 37ff., here p. 49

Runge's version, published by Arnim in 1808, is in Pomeranian (low German) dialect, and [...]

Stephen Benson, The soul music of "The Juniper Tree", in: 2015, Maria Tatar (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales, Cambridge University Press, p. 166ff., here p. 173

Among their dialects the Rhine Franconian and Moselle-Franconian varieties prevailed, but other dialects were present as well, such as Upper German Swabian, Low German Westphalian, Pomeranian, and the Mennonite varieties, and even Volga German.

P. Rosenberg, Dialect convergence in the German language islands (Sprachinseln), in: 2005, Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens, Paul Kerswill (eds.), Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, p. 221ff., here p. 228

[...] the language of everyday use is characterized by a wide panorama of local dialectal variation, ranging from Low German dialects in the north (e.g. Low Saxon, Westphalian, Pomeranian), through Central German dialects (e.g. Hessian, Thuringian, Silesian) to the High German dialects of the south (e.g. Bavarian, High Alemannic, Alsatian and Franconian) [...]

2011, George L. Campbell, Gareth King, The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages, 2nd ed. (1st ed. 1995), p. 238, inside the section German

A second important isogloss that separates Pomeranian from the other Low German variants, [...] These strong morphemes are absent in the North Sea Germanic area, as well as in Pomeranian.

2019, Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 248), p. 6