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The Wendish people co-existed with the German settlers for centuries and became gradually assimilated into the German-speaking culture. The Golden Bull of 1356 (one of the constitutional foundations of the German-Roman Empire) explicitly recognised in its Art. 31 that the German-Roman Empire was a multi-national entity with "diverse nations ...
The following statistics indicate the progression of cultural change among Sorbs: by the end of the 19th century, about 150,000 people spoke Sorbian languages. By 1920, almost all Sorbs had mastered Sorbian and German to the same degree. Nowadays, the number of people using Sorbian languages has been estimated to be no more than 40,000.
Texas Wendish Heritage Museum Texas Wendish Bell. The Texas Wends or Wends of Texas are a group of people descended from a congregation of 558 Sorbian/Wendish people under the leadership and pastoral care of John Kilian (Sorbian languages: Jan Kilian, German: Johann Killian) who emigrated from Lusatia (part of modern-day Germany) to Texas in 1854. [1]
The Sorbian settlement area (Lower Sorbian: Serbski sedleński rum [ˈsɛrpskʲi ˈsɛdlɛnʲskʲi ˈrum], Upper Sorbian: Serbski sydlenski rum [ˈsɛʁpskʲi ˈsɨdlɛnskʲi ˈʁum], German: Sorbisches Siedlungsgebiet; in Brandenburg officially Siedlungsgebiet der Sorben/Wenden) commonly makes reference to the area in the east of Saxony and the South of Brandenburg in which the West Slavic ...
Sorbian Americans (Upper Sorbian: Serbscy Američenjo, Lower Sorbian: Serbske Amerikanarje) or Wendish Americans are Americans of Sorb/Wend descent. The largest community of Sorbs in the United States is in Texas , with a population of around 588 Sorbs/Wends.
Ice Spice and Snoop Dogg gave a surprise performance in Times Square on Friday that was also live streamed to Epic Games’ massive multiplayer online game “Fortnite.” The event was revealed ...
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA . Upper Sorbian ( endonym : hornjoserbšćina ), occasionally referred to as Wendish ( German : Wendisch ), [ 2 ] is a minority language spoken by Sorbs , in the historical ...
Wendish may refer to: Wends , a historical name for Slavs who inhabited present day north east Germany Sorbian languages , languages spoken by the Sorbs, a West Slavic minority in the Lusatia region of Eastern Germany