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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.
Dervan's Sorbian province. According to the old theorization by Joachim Herrmann, the Serbian tribe characterized by Rüssen-type of Leipzig group pottery arrived from the Middle Danube in the beginning of the 7th century and settled between Saale and Elbe river, but only since the 10th century their ethnonym was transferred to the Luzici, Milceni and other tribes of Sukow-Dziedzice and Tornow ...
At about a population of 60,000 (30,000 of which speak Sorbian), the Sorbs are the smallest Slavic-speaking group in Europe. This is a list of notable Sorbs . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The two Sorbian languages, each having its own literary standard, are Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbsce), spoken by about 20,000–25,000 [5] people in Saxony, and Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski), spoken by about 7,000 people in Brandenburg.
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.
People of Sorbian descent (3 C, 4 P) E. Early Sorbian people (8 P) V. Vlastimirović dynasty (21 P) W. Sorbian-language writers (17 P) Pages in category "Sorbian people"
Sorbian may refer to: Sorbs, a Slavic people in modern-day Germany; Sorbian languages, a group of closely related West Slavic languages Upper Sorbian language; Lower Sorbian language; Sorbian settlement area; Sorbian March