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During World War I one of the most important commanders in the Serbian army was Pavle Jurišić Šturm, a Serbian general, who was according to Serbian sources of Sorbian origin. [8] However, he is not mentioned in any Sorbian sources. In 1944 Sorb writer Jurij Chěžka was killed in Serbia, reportedly on his way to join Yugoslav Partisans. [9]
Sorbs (Upper Sorbian: Serbja; Lower Sorbian: Serby; German: Sorben pronounced [ˈzɔʁbn̩] ⓘ; Czech: Lužičtí Srbové; Polish: Serbołużyczanie; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs [5] and Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.
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.
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 ...
Location of White Serbia c. 560 AD, according to Francis Dvornik (1949–1956) Slavic and Serbian migrations to the Balkans According to De Administrando Imperio ( DAI ), written by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (912-959), the Serbs originated from the " White Serbs " who lived on the "other side of Turkey" (name used for Hungary ), in ...
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]
Standard Serbian language uses both Cyrillic (ћирилица, ćirilica) and Latin script (latinica, латиница). Serbian is a rare example of synchronic digraphia, a situation where all literate members of a society have two interchangeable writing systems available to them. Media and publishers typically select one alphabet or the other.
In this area, Sorbian is an official language and children are taught Sorbian in schools and day cares. Other concerted efforts to preserve the language through media, club, and related resources have continued into the 21st century. [5] In spite of these efforts, numbers of Upper Sorbian speakers were still considered to be dwindling.