Upper Sorbian language
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Upper Sorbian, occasionally referred to as Wendish, is a minority language spoken by Sorbs in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, today part of Saxony, Germany. It is a West Slavic language, alo
A bilingual sign in Germany; German in first place and Upper Sorbian in second
Bilingual sign at a shop on Karl-Marx-Straße in Bautzen, reading: “Bakery products. Meat and sausage. Fruits and vegetables” in Upper Sorbian
Sorbian school Jurij Chěžka in Crostwitz/Chrósćicy, Bautzen district, Upper Lusatia.
Cover of Płomjo (2024)
Sorbs
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Sorbs, also known as Lusatian Serbs, are a West Slavic ethnic group indigenous to parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs traditionally speak the Sorbian languag
Upper Sorbian language
…Upper Sorbian (endonym: hornjoserbšćina), occasionally referred to as Wendish (German: Wendisch), is a minority language spoken by Sorbs in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, today part of Saxony, Germany. It is a West Slavic language, along with Lower Sorbian, Czech, Polish…
Traditional female costume of Lower Lusatia (Spreewald)
The Chronicle of Fredegar mentions a Latin: Deruanus dux gente surbiorum, que ex genere Sclauinoru erant, lit. 'Dervan, Duke of the people of the Surbs, who were of the race of the Sclavs'
7th-century Sorbian Duchy of Dervan
The reconstructed Lusatian gord (fortification) of Raduš (Raddusch), near Vetschau, in Lower Lusatia