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The Sorbian languages [1] (Upper Sorbian: serbska rěč, Lower Sorbian: serbska rěc) are the Upper Sorbian language and Lower Sorbian language, two closely related and partially mutually intelligible languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavic ethno-cultural minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern Germany.
Upper Sorbian (endonym: hornjoserbšćina), occasionally referred to as Wendish (German: Wendisch), [2] is a minority language spoken by Sorbs, in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, which is today part of Saxony, Germany.
Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian are officially recognized minority languages in Germany. In the Early Middle Ages , the Sorbs formed their own principality, which later shortly became part of the early West Slavic Samo's Empire and Great Moravia , as were ultimately conquered by the East Francia ( Sorbian March ) and Holy Roman Empire ( Saxon ...
Some linguists include Upper and Lower Sorbian in the Lechitic branch, but other linguists regard it as a separate branch. [5] The reason for this is that 'the Sorbian dialects are extremely diverse, and there are virtually no linguistic features common to all Sorbian dialects which distinguish them as a group from the other Slavic languages' (Sussex & Cubberley 2006). [5]
The standard character encoding for the Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2). The alphabet is used for the Sorbian languages, although some letters are used in only one of the two languages (Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian).
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Upper Sorbian-language mass media (2 C) W. Upper Sorbian-language works (1 C) Pages in category "Upper Sorbian language" This category contains only the following page.
The "Sorbian core settlement area" references the area in which the Sorbian language is still spoken on a daily basis. This applies to the mostly catholic Upper Lusatia in between Bautzen, Kamenz and Hoyerswerda, more closely the five municipalities of am Klosterwasser and Radibor. In those areas, more than half of the population speaks Upper ...