About Sorbian Language , by Helmut Faska, University of Leipzig English ref There are two literary languages Upper Sorbian language Upper Sorbian lang hsb hornjoserbsce , spoken by about 40,000 people in Saxony , and Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian lang dsb dolnoserbski spoken by about 10,000 people in Brandenburg . The area where the two languages are spoken is known as Lusatia u ica in Upper Sorbian, u yca in Lower Sorbian, or Lausitz in German language German . Both languages have ... web document sorab an i1 i1.html Euromosaic information page Slavic languages Category SorbianlanguagesSorbianlanguages Category West Slavic languages Category Languages of Germany Category Sorbian ...refimprove date January 2011 Infobox language family name Sorbian altname Wendish, Lusatian region Lusatia familycolor Indo European fam2 Balto Slavic languages Balto Slavic fam3 Slavic languages Slavic fam4 West Slavic languages West Slavic child1 Upper Sorbian language Upper Sorbian child2 Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian map Germany sorbian region.png mapcaption The Sorbian speaking region in Germany iso2 wen iso5 wen The Sorbianlanguages lang hsb Serbsce , lang dsb Serbski are classified under the West Slavic languages Slavic branch of the Indo European languages . They are the native languages of the Sorbs , a Slavic minority in the Lusatia region of eastern Germany . Historically the language ... Indo European languages retain this feature as a productive aspect of the grammar see Slovenian grammar or Lithuanian grammar for other ones . 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 ... of Bautzen in Upper Lusatia is the centre of Upper Sorbian culture. Bilingual signs can be seen around ... the cultural centre of Lower Sorbian here too bilingual signs are found. Sorbian has also been spoken in the small Sorbian Wendish settlement of Serbin, Texas Serbin in Lee County, Texas , and it is possible ... more details
Sorbian may refer to more than one article Sorbs , a Slavic people in modern day Germany Sorbianlanguages , a group of closely related West Slavic languages See also Serbin, Texas , founded by 19th Century Wendish immigrants, name is derived from the same root disambig no Sorbisk ... more details
h in alphabetical order. DEFAULTSORT Sorbian Alphabet Category Sorbianlanguages Alphabet Category Latin alphabets Category West Slavic languages Category Sorbian people de Sorbisches Alphabet eo Soraba ...Unreferenced date December 2009 The Sorbian alphabet is based on the ISO basic Latin alphabet but uses diacritic s such as the acute accent and the caron , making it similar to the Czech alphabet Czech and Polish alphabet Polish alphabets. The standard character encoding for the Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859 2 Latin 2 . The alphabet is used for the Sorbianlanguages , although some letters are used in only one of the two languages Upper Sorbian language Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian . class wikitable Upper br case HTML br code Lower br case HTML br code Name Usual br phonetic value Other br phonetic values Comments A a a IPA a B b bej IPA b IPA p C c cej IPA ts & 268 & 269 ej IPA t & 262 & 263 et IPA t D d dej IPA d IPA t E e ej IPA & 282 & 283 j t t Upper , t Lower IPA i F f ef IPA f G g gej IPA H h ha Upper IPA h br Lower IPA h or silent I i i IPA i J j jot j t Upper , jot ... Upper Sorbian only & 340 & 341 ej IPA r Lower Sorbian only S s es IPA ... Lower Sorbian only T t tej IPA t IPA d U u u IPA u W w wej Upper IPA v br Lower IPA w or silent Upper Sorbian IPA f Y y y IPA ... & 377 & 378 ej IPA Lower Sorbian only br except as part of digraph d An earlier version of the Lower Sorbian alphabet included the use of the letters Unicode b , , , and to indicate palatalized labials. These have been replaced by bj, mj, pj and wj . Sorbian orthography ... more details
File Slavs west territory Limes Sorabicus.jpg thumb The limes Sorabicus represented by a red line The Sorb ian March lang la limes Sorabicus lang de Sorbenmark was a Marches frontier district on the eastern border of East Francia in the 9th through 11th centuries. It was composed of several counties bordering the Sorbs . The Sorbian march seems to have comprised the eastern part of Thuringia . The Sorbian march was sometimes referred to as the Thuringian March . The term Sorbian march appears only four times in the Annales Fuldenses and only three rulers are recorded Poppo, Duke of Thuringia Poppo , Thachulf, Duke of Thuringia Thachulf , and Radulf II, Duke of Thuringia Radulf . The commanders of the Sorbian march bore the title dux Sorabici limitis in the Annales , but are also referred to elsewhere as counts comites , margrave s marchiones , and Rulers of Thuringia dukes of Thuringia duces Thuringorum . The march was probably ruled primarily by the House of Babenberg Babenberg family. The boundary between Thuringia and the Sorbs was defined as the Saale river by Einhard , writing in the 830s lang la Salam fluvium, qui Thuringos et Sorabos dividit the river Saale, which divides the Thuringii and the Sorbs . Erfurt was the chief economic centre of eastern Thuringia at the time. The Sorbian march probably loosely included the land east of the Saale as far as the Wei e Elster Elster and the Pleisse , which might have been controlled by castles . Whether the Sorbian march itself was only the area west of the Saale, east of it, ref Leyser, 11. ref or on both sides is impossible to tell. The Sorbian march was frequently troubled in the 9th century by insurrection on the part of the Slavs , who were tributaries of the Germans. In the 10th century, however, the march formed part of the vast marca Geronis from 937 until 965. ref Thompson, 487. ref During this period, the Sorbs were reduced to serf dom and the march largely pacified. After 965, it formed a part of the March ... more details
Balto Slavic languages Balto Slavic fam3 Slavic languages Slavic fam4 West Slavic languages West Slavic fam5 SorbianlanguagesSorbian script Latin script Latin Sorbian alphabet nation regional language in Germany Brandenburg and Saxony iso2 hsb iso3 hsb lingua 53 AAA bb Sorbianlanguages 53 AAA b West Slavic languages 53 AAA b... d varieties 53 AAA bba to 53 AAA bbf Upper Sorbian lang hsb Hornjoserb ina ... Lusatia Hornja u ica in Sorbian , which is today part of Saxony . It is grouped in the West Slavic languages West Slavic language branch, together with Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian , Czech ... , but before Frisian languages Frisian . See also Sorbian alphabet Lower Sorbian language References Reflist External links Commons category Upper Sorbian pronunciation InterWiki code hsb http www.ethnologue.com ... sibz.whyi.org edi wucbnica slownik.html at sibz.whyi.org Slavic languages DEFAULTSORT Upper Sorbian Language Category Upper Sorbian language Category Sorbianlanguages Category Languages of Germany Sorbian, Upper Category West Slavic languagesSorbian, Upper Category Sorbian people Category Endangered ...Infobox language name Upper Sorbian nativename Hornjoserb ina pronunciation IPA uk h rnj s rb t ina ... . History The history of the Upper Sorbian language in Germany began with the Slavic peoples Slavic ... of the country by military actions began the slow decrease of the Upper Sorbian language. In addition, in the Saxony region, the Sorbian language was legally subordinated to the German language. Language prohibitions were later added In 1293, the Sorbian language was forbidden in Berne castle before ... Sorbian speakers in that area grew to over 300,000. The oldest evidence of written Upper Sorbian is the Burger ... 1532. The Upper Sorbian language in Germany Image Bautzen Ortschild.jpg thumb A bilingual sign in Germany the lower part is in Upper Sorbian There are estimated to be 40,000 speakers of Upper Sorbian, of which almost all live in Saxony . This puts Upper Sorbian as the third largest minority language ... more details
B Jakub Bart i inski u i an, Jakub Bart Kukowski 20 August 1856 16 October 1909 Ha a Bje owa 1919 Jurij Br zan June 9, 1916 March 12, 2006 Upper Lusatian K Jurij Koch 15 September 1936 present day Upper & Lower Lusatian Mato Kosyk June 18, 1853 November 22, 1940 Lower Lusatian L Kito Lorenc March 4, 1938 present day W Mina Witkojc 1893 1975 Lower Lusatian Z Handrij Zejler 1 February 1804 15 October 1872 See also List of Sorbs Lusatia Sorbian Sorbian languages Polabian Slavs Wends Wendish Milceni Lists of poets Category Sorbian language writers Category Lists of poets by language Sorbian ... more details
Infobox language name Lower Sorbian nativename Dolnoserbski, Dolnoserb ina pronunciation IPA d ln s rsk i states Germany region Brandenburg script Latin script Latin Sorbian alphabet speakers 7,000 date 1995 familycolor Indo European fam2 Balto Slavic languages Balto Slavic fam3 Slavic languages Slavic fam4 West Slavic languages West Slavic fam5 SorbianlanguagesSorbian iso2 dsb iso3 dsb lingua 53 AAA ba Sorbianlanguages 53 AAA b West Slavic languages 53 AAA b... d varieties 53 AAA baa to 53 AAA bah notice IPA Lower Sorbian lang dsb Dolnoserbski is a Slavic languages Slavic minority language ... . It is one of the two literary Sorbianlanguages , the other being Upper Sorbian . Lower Sorbian is spoken ... lexikalische dsb deu.html Lexikalische bungen Slavic languages DEFAULTSORT Lower Sorbian Language Category Lower Sorbian language Category Sorbianlanguages Category Languages of Germany Sorbian, Lower Category West Slavic languagesSorbian, Lower Category Sorbian people Category Endangered ..., and Cottbus has a Gymnasium school Gymnasium where the language of instruction is Lower Sorbian ... in Cottbus , Germany The phonology of Lower Sorbian has been greatly influenced by language contact ... . Consonants The consonant phoneme s of Lower Sorbian are as follows class wikitable style text ... l IPA j Lower Sorbian has both final devoicing and regressive phonation voicing assimilation linguistics ... align center IPA aj align center IPA aw Stress Stress linguistics Stress in Lower Sorbian normally ... policija IPA p l itsija police organizacija IPA r an i zatsija organization Orthography The Sorbian ... character encoding for the Lower Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859 2 Latin 2 . References Reflist ... http wold.livingsources.org vocabulary 10 Lower Sorbian Vocabulary List from the World Loanword Database Dictionaries German Lower Sorbian Language icon de Language icon dsb http www.dolnoserbski.de ... at Korpus GENIE Lower Sorbian German Language icon de Language icon dsb http dolnoserbski.de ndw at dolnoserbski.de ... more details
Lower Sorbian The oldest SorbianlanguagesSorbian Bible version, that of the New Testament of 1547, is extant in a manuscript in the Royal Library at Berlin. The translator was Miklaw Jakubica , ref Tone Glavan Lu i ki Srbi 1966 Prvi, ki se je lotil pisanja v svojem jeziku, pravzaprav prevajanja v srbski jezik, je bil MIKLAW JAKUBICA, ... Kdo je bil Miklaw Jakubica, avtor pomembnega lu i kosrbskega knji evnega spomenika, knji evni zgodovinarji e niso dognali .. ref who employed a now extinct dialect of Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian . ref Theologische Realenzyklop die Volume 6 Page 264 Horst Robert Balz, Gerhard Krause, Gerhard M ller 1980 bersetzungen ins Sorbische Wendische F r die slavische Bev lkerung der Niederlausitz bersetzte Miklawusch Jakubica 1547 das Neue Testament aus dem Luthertext und einer tschechischen Bibel ins Niedersorbische. ref In the 18th century de Johann Gottlieb Fabricius dsb Jan Bogumi Fabricius , a German, made a translation of the New Testament which was printed in 1709. In a revised form this version was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1860. The Old Testament, translated by J. F. Fritz, was printed at Cottbus in 1796. ref Text, Wort, Glaube Page 150 Kurt Aland, Martin Brecht Damit war zugleich die letzte Gelegenheit verpa t, die seit 1728 vorliegende obersorbische Vollbibel auch zur ... doch erst am Ende des Jahrhunderts 1796 , w hrend die erste Ausgabe der niedersorbischen Vollbibel durch JF Fritz und JSF Schindler gar bis 1824 auf sich ref An edition of the entire Bible was published by the Prussian Bible Society in 1868. Upper Sorbian Michal Frencel ref Interpretation der Bibel Page 1236 Jo e Kra ovec 1998 ... Sorbian category Sorbianlanguages ... den griechischen Urtext und andere ... ref Pastor in Gro postwitz Postwitz Sorbian Budestecy d. 1706 , translated the New Testament into the Upper Sorbian language Upper Sorbian , and his version was published ... more details
Orphan date November 2006 TOC A B Jakub Bart i inski 1856 1909 Ha a Bje owa 1919 Jurij Br zan 1916 2006 Ben Budar 1928 Beno Budar 1946 C D R a Doma cyna 1951 Benedikt Dyrlich 1950 D F Alfons Frencl 1946 G Pawo Grojlich 1908 H Ch Jurij Ch ka 1917 1944 I J K Jurij Koch 1936 Cyril Kola 1927 Mato Kosyk 1853 1940 K es an Krawc 1938 d.i. Christian Schneider Marja Krawcec 1948 Jurij Kraw a 1934 L Gerat Lib 1935 Kito Lorenc 1938 Jakub Lorenc Zal ski 1874 1939 M Kata Malinkowa 1931 N Ingrid Naglowa 1939 Madlena Nasti cyna 1950 Anton Nawka 1913 Tomasz A. Nawka 1949 Herbert Noack Nowak 1916 O P R Fryco Rocha 1863 1942 S Eleonore Schmidt Kowarjowa 1931 T U W Jan Wjela 1822 1907 Jan Wornar 1934 Herta Wi azec 1819 1885 Mina Witkojc 1893 1975 Z Handrij Zejler 1804 1872 See also List of Sorbs Sorbian language Sorbian literature Bible translations into Sorbian Category Lists of writers by language Sorbian cs Seznam lu ickosrbsk ch spisovatel de Liste sorbischsprachiger Schriftsteller dsb Lis ina serbskich spisowa elow hsb Lis ina serbskich spisowa elow pl Pisarze u yccy szl Lista u yckich pisorz w ... more details
Languages of country Germany official German language German 95 regional Low Rhenish Limburgish Luxembourgish Alemannic German Alemannic Austro Bavarian language Bavarian Danish language Danish Upper Sorbian , Lower Sorbian North Frisian language North Frisian , Saterland Frisian language Saterland Frisian Romani language Romani , Low German language Low German immigrant Turkish language Turkish , Russian language Russian , Polish language Polish , Serbo Croatian language Serbo Croatian , Dutch language Dutch and others br small see further immigration to Germany small foreign English language English 51 br French language French 15 br Russian language Russian 5 sign German Sign Language keyboard QWERTZ keyboard image Image KB Germany.svg 200px source http ec.europa.eu public opinion archives ebs ebs 243 en.pdf ebs 243 en.pdf europa.eu Culture of Germany The official language of Germany is German language Standard German , with over 95 of the country speaking Standard German or German dialects as their first language. ref name BBC cite web url http www.bbc.co.uk languages european languages countries germany.shtml title BBC Education ref This figure includes speakers of Northern Low Saxon , a recognized minority or regional language which is not considered separately from Standard German in statistics. Minority first languages include Sorbian language Sorbian 0.09 Romani language Romani 0.08 Danish language Danish 0.06 North Frisian language North Frisian 0.01 Immigrant languages spoken by sizable communities of first and second generation persons of Eastern European, African ... is, with French and Latin as common second or third foreign languages. Russian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, classical Greek, and other languages are also offered in schools often depending on the school s geographic location . References references Languages of Europe Category Languages of Germany Category German culture Category Languages of Europe Germany Category German language bn ... more details
Polabian small extinct small SorbianlanguagesSorbian Upper Sorbian language Upper Sorbian Lower Sorbian language Lower Sorbian Knaanic language Knaanic small extinct small Style vertical align top South Slavic languages South Slavic branch Eastern Group Old Church Slavonic small extinct small ... Russian language Russian ISO 639 1 code ru ISO 639 3 code rus West Slavic languagesSorbianlanguages ... familycolor Indo European fam2 Balto Slavic languages Balto Slavic protoname Proto Slavic child1 East Slavic languages East Slavic child2 South Slavic languages South Slavic child3 West Slavic languages West Slavic map Slavic europe.svg mapcaption legend 008000 Countries where an East Slavic ... iso5 sla The Slavic languages also called Slavonic languages , a group of closely related language s of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo European languages , have speakers in most of Eastern ... Image Balto slavic languages1997.png thumb 250px Balto Slavic languages by number of speakers as of 1997 . ref According to the data taken from Anatole V. Lyovin, An Introduction to the Languages ... Slavic languages on the basis of geographical distribution into three main branches, some of which feature subbranches Style vertical align top East Slavic languages Eastern Slavic branch Old East Slavic ... West Slavic languages West Slavic branch Czech & Slovak Czech language Czech Slovak language Slovak Eastern dialects Pannonian Rusyn language Pannonian Rusyn Lechitic languages Lechitic Old Polish language ... speculate that a North Slavic languages North Slavic branch has existed as well. The Old Novgorod ... Slavic is also used sometimes to combine the West and East Slavic languages into one group, in opposition to the South Slavic languages, due to traits the West and East Slavic branches share with each other that they do not with the South Slavic languages. The most obvious differences between the West and East Slavic branches are in orthography of standard languages West Slavic languages are written ... more details
the Elbe river in what is now the northeast of Germany. Features Characteristics of Lechitic languages ... and Kashubian. Etymology The term Lechitic is applied both to the languages of this group and to Slavic peoples speaking these languages known as Lechites . The term is related to the name of the legendary ... tree at Ethnologue DEFAULTSORT Lechitic Languages Category Lechitic languages Link GA ru af Lechitiese ... more details
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For the populations of Europe by country and the population overall Demographics of Europe See also Languages of the European Union File Rectified Languages of Europe map.png thumb 450px Map of major European languages Most of the language s of Europe belong to Indo European languages Indo European language family . These are divided into a number of branches, including Romance languages Romance , Germanic languages Germanic , Balto Slavic languages Balto Slavic , Greek language Greek , and others. The Uralic languages also have a significant presence in Europe, including the national languages ... languages Turkic and Mongolic languages Mongolic families also have several European members, while the North Caucasian languages North Caucasian and Kartvelian languages Kartvelian families are important ... Semitic language in Europe with national language status. In addition to current languages, there are many languages once used in Europe which are now extinct language extinct see List of extinct languages of Europe . Other languages are nearly extinct see List of endangered languages in Europe . This article also does not include languages spoken by relatively recently arrived migrant communities. Indo European languages start of Indo European languages section See also List of Indo European languages The Indo European languages Indo European language family descended from Proto Indo ... European languages are spoken throughout Europe, but particularly dominate Western Europe . Albanian ... dispersed Armenian diaspora reside. Baltic languages File Baltic languages.png thumb 250px Distribution of the Baltic languages in the Baltic simplified . The Baltic languages are spoken in Lithuania ... several extinct Baltic languages, including Old Prussian language Prussian and Sudovian ... Celtic speakers are now concentrated The modern Celtic languages are divided into the Brythonic languages ... languages Goidelic Gaelic family Irish language Irish spoken primarily in Ireland , Scottish ... more details
Siberian languages may refer to any languages spoken in Siberia, including the Eskimo Aleut languages spoken in Siberia the Mongolic languages spoken in Siberia the Paleosiberian languages the Siberian Turkic languages the Russian dialects spoken in Siberia the Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia the Uralic languages spoken in Siberia disambig ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Many languages are indigenous to Oceania they belong to several families. The Austronesian languages Austronesian family is the most common, found throughout many Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Australia is home to many diverse families of Languages of Australia indigenous languages Pama Nyungan languages Gunwinyguan languages Macro Pama Nyungan languages Southwest Pama Nyungan languages Bunaban languages 2 languages in two branches Daly languages 11 19 languages in four branches, including Murrinh Patha language Murrinh Patha Limilngan languages 2 languages, extinct? Djeragan languages 3 5 languages in two branches Nyulnyulan languages 4 8 languages in one branch Wororan languages 7 12 languages in three branches Indo Pacific languages Andaman languagesLanguages of Papua New Guinea Tasmanian languages Also, the languages of European settlers and colonial powers are common in the region, such as English in Australia and New Zealand , Spanish language Spanish in Easter Island , and French in New Caledonia , etc. There are also creole language creoles formed from the interaction of the European and indigenous languages, such as Tok Pisin , Hawaiian Pidgin , Norfuk and Pitkern . See also List of extinct languages of Oceania Navboxes list Languages of Oceania Countries and languages lists DEFAULTSORT Languages Of Oceania Category Languages of Oceania Au lang stub bn ru ... more details
Infobox language family name Awan region Colombia and Ecuador familycolor American fam1 Barbacoan languages Barbacoan sil 904 16 The Awan languages are Barbacoan languages that include the Awa Pit language and the Pasto languages spoken in Ecuador and Colombia . Pasto is extinct. DEFAULTSORT Awan Languages Category Awan languages Category Languages of Ecuador Category Barbacoan languages Category Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas Na lang stub es Lenguas ahuanas mk ... more details
Infobox language family name Bel region Northern New Guinea familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Western Oceanic languages Western Oceanic fam5 North New Guinea languages North New Guinea ? fam6 Ngero Vitiaz languages Ngero Vitiaz child1 Astrolabe languages child2 Nuclear Bel languages sil 2324 16 The eight Bel languages form a group of Austronesian languages of northern Papua New Guinea . Components Astrolabe languages Nuclear Bel languages DEFAULTSORT Bel Languages Category Western Oceanic languages Category Languages of Papua New Guinea Au lang stub ... more details
The languages of the Bomberai Peninsula of Indonesian New Guinea fall into several groups West Bomberai languages Papuan, west and south Irarutu language Austronesian, most of the interior North Bomberai languages Austronesian, off the coast Bedoanas Erokwanas languages minor Austronesian languages labeled Bomberai in Ethnologue dab ... more details
Infobox language family name Astrolabe region Madang Province , Papua New Guinea familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Western Oceanic languages Western Oceanic fam5 North New Guinea languages North New Guinea ? fam6 Ngero Vitiaz languages Ngero Vitiaz fam7 Bel languages Bel sil 2325 16 The three Astrolabe languages form a small group of Austronesian languages of Madang Province , Papua New Guinea Awad Bing language Awad Bing , Mindiri language Mindiri , Wab language Wab DEFAULTSORT Astrolabe Languages Category Languages of Papua New Guinea Category Western Oceanic languages Au lang stub hr Astrolabski jezici ... more details
Infobox language family name Kowan familycolor Papuan region Madang Province fam1 Trans New Guinea fam2 Madang languages Madang fam3 Southern Adelbert Range Kowan sil 2440 16 The Kowan languages are a small family of languages spoken in the Adelbert Range area of Madang Province , Papua New Guinea . The languages are Waskia language Waskia , with 20,000 speakers, and Korak language Korak , with 500. DEFAULTSORT Kowan Languages Category Languages of Papua New Guinea Category Kowan languages pa lang stub ... more details
Infobox language family name Mahakam altname Barito Mahakam region south Borneo , Madagascar familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Barito languages Barito The Mahakam or Barito Mahakam languages are a couple closely related Dayak languages Dayak Austronesian languages Austronesian languages of Borneo Ampanang language Ampanang , Tunjung language Tunjung Category Barito languages au lang stub fr Langues barito mahakam hr Mahakam jezici it Lingue barito mahakam mk ... more details
Infobox language family name Banggi region Sabah familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Bornean languages Bornean ? fam4 Sabahan languages Sabahan The Banggi languages also Bangay are a pair of languages, Bonggi language Bonggi and Molbog language Molbog , spoken in Sabah on Borneo , on Palawan in the Philippines, and on the islands in between. External links Ethnologue bdg Category Sabahan languages Category Languages of the Philippines Category Article Feedback 5 au lang stub ... more details
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