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{{Infobox Language family |name=Sorbian |altname=Wendish, Lusatian |region=[Lusatia |familycolor=Indo-European |fam1=[Indo-European languages |fam2=[Balto-Slavic languages |fam3=[Slavic languages |fam4=[West Slavic languages |child1=[Upper Sorbian language |child2=[Lower Sorbian language |map=]The Sorbian-speaking region in [Germany. -->The Sorbian languages are classified under the West Slavic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. They are the native languages of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in eastern Germany. Historically the language has also been known as Wendish or Lusatian. Their collective ISO 639-2 code is wen.

There are two literary languages: Upper Sorbian language (hornjoserbsce), spoken by about 40,000 people in Saxony, and Lower Sorbian language (dolnoserbski) spoken by about 10,000 people in Brandenburg. The area where the two languages are spoken is known as Lusatia (Łužica in Upper Sorbian, Łužyca in Lower Sorbian, or Lausitz in German language).

Both languages have the dual (grammatical number) in nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs; very few known living Indo-European languages retain this feature as a productive aspect of the grammar (Slovenian language being the best example of another). The dual is used when exactly two people or things are meant and is used in addition to grammatical number and plural. Some Slavic languages such as Czech, retain the dual but use it only for a set of words describing things that naturally come in pairs (eyes, ears, hands); Lithuanian is a Baltic language that uses the dual mainly in poetic speech and set phrases.

In Germany, Upper and Lower Sorbian are officially recognized and protected as minority languages. In the home areas of the Sorbs, both languages are officially equal to German.

The city of Bautzen in Upper Lusatia is the centre of Upper Sorbian culture. Notable is the fact that bilingual signs can be seen around the city including the name of the city itself at the railway station given as "Bautzen/Budyšin".

The city of Cottbus (Chóśebuz) is considered the cultural centre of Lower Sorbian; here too bilingual signs are found.

Sorbian is also spoken in the small Sorbian (“Wendish”) settlement of Serbin, Texas in Lee County, Texas, and until recently newspapers were published in Sorbian there. The local dialect has been heavily influenced by surrounding speakers of German language and English language.

While the old German-derived labels “Wend” and “Wendish,” which once denoted “Slav(ic)” generally, have been retained in American and Australian communities, they ought not be used in place of “Sorb” and “Sorbian” with reference to Sorbian communities in Germany, because many consider them offensive these days.

See also

Sorbian alphabet
Sorbs
Wends
List of Sorbian-language writers

External links

German - Lower Sorbian online dictionary
Sorbian language tree
Euromosaic information page

External links

German - Lower Sorbian online dictionary
Sorbian language tree
Euromosaic information page

Sorbian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sorbian languages are classified under the Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. They are the native languages of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in eastern Germany.

Sorbian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sorbian may refer to more than one article: the Sorbs, a Slavic people in modern day Germany; the Sorbian language(s), a group of closely related West Slavic languages

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INEX: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Sorbian languages)
The Sorbian languages (serbšćina) are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany . They are also known as Wendish or Lusatian.

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