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	Lower Sorbian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) is a minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia, today part of Brandenburg.
		The Sorbian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as acute accent and caron.
		The standard character encoding for the Lower Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Sorbian (155 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lower Sorbian language
		The consonant phonemes of Lower Sorbian are as follows: Listen to this article Â· (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-07-20, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article.
		Lower Sorbian has both final devoicing and regressive voicing assimilation: In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips.
		In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lips and the upper teeth, or viceversa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lower-Sorbian-language (1393 words)

	Sorbian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sorbian languages (serbšćina) are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany.
		The area where the two languages are spoken is known as Lusatia (Łužica in Upper Sorbian, Łužyca in Lower Sorbian, or Lausitz in German).
		Sorbian is also spoken in the small Wendish settlement of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and until recently newspapers were published in Wendish there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sorbian_languages (253 words)

	Upper and Lower Sorbian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Sorbian, or Wendisch, is a member of the West Slavic subgroup of Indo-European languges spoken by about 55,000 people in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the German Länder of Saxony and Brandenburg.
		In the mid-19th century, written Upper Sorbian based on the dialect spoken around Bautzen was introduced as the compulsory standard in the Sorbian-speaking area in Upper Lusatia, while written Lower Sorbian based on the Cottbus dialect was introduced as the standard written form in Lower Lusatia.
		Sorbian is taught as a subject in a number of secondary schools and used as a medium of instruction for some subjects.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/sorbian.htm (522 words)

	Euromosaic - Sorbian in Germany
		Sorbian is spoken in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the German Länder of Saxony and Brandenburg.
		Until the 10th century, Sorbian was spoken between the Bober and Queiß in the east and the Saale in the west, the Erz and Lusatian mountains in the south and roughly as far as Frankfurt on the Oder, Köpenick and Jüteborg.
		In the A schools, Sorbian is the main language of instruction, and in the B schools of the area it is an optional language.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/sorab/an/i1/i1.html (4231 words)

	Dr. Robert Elsie - Anthology of Sorbian Poetry
		Sorbian is spoken in a number of regional variants, having crystallized into two related literary languages: Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian, which are, given a bit of effort and good will, quite mutually intelligible.
		Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbscina) is spoken by large sections of the rural population of Upper Lusatia northeast of Dresden between the towns of Bautzen (Budysin), Hoyerswerda (Wojerecy) and Kamenz (Kamjenc).
		A landmark in the history of Sorbian literature was the founding in 1706 of the Catholic Serbski seminar or Sorbian Seminary in Prague, and in 1716 of the Protestant Serbske Predarske Towarstwo or Sorbian Preachers' Society in Leipzig.
	www.elsie.de /pub/b06.html (1143 words)

	EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The use of Sorbian in the courts of justice in the bilingual area is regulated by the Unification Treaty, the constitutions of the Länder of Saxony and Brandenburg and the First Implementing Order to the Act governing the Rights of the Sorbian Population of 23 March 1948.
		Despite the Sorbian language being firmly encapsulated in the law at national and Land level, in practice the language is hardly ever used in court, since all Sorbs are bilingual and generally use German in official places and in dealings with the authorities.
		The guaranteed use of Sorbian in the Land authorities is regulated by Sectionof the Provisional Administrative Procedures Act for the Free State of Saxony of 21 January 1993 and Sectionof the Local Authority Regulations for the Free State of Saxony of 21 April 1993.
	europa.eu.int /comm/education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/de3_en.html (4307 words)

	Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
		As in primary education, Sorbian is the main language in the A schools at this level of education, but is an optional subject only in a few B schools in secondary education.
		Sorbian is also used in teacher training programmes, and it is taught as a modern language in university institutions and on courses for mature students.
		Sorbian can be keyed in on personal computers, apart from the diacritical marks on the letters e, o, c, c dz, t, z, s and r, which cannot be reproduced here, of course.
	rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/jezik/euromosaic-sorbian_eng.html (4240 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Germany: Language in everyday life
		Sater or East Frisian (Seeltersk) is spoken in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in the villages of Ramsloh, Struecklingen and Scharrel in the district of Cloppenburg.
		Sorbian is taught as a subject one hour a week in the 1st grade and three hours a week in the 2nd to the 6th grade.
		In the Sorbian language area of Saxony the former “A” type schools have been reestablished to Sorbian schools where Sorbian serves both as a subject and a medium of instruction, with the exception of the German language, which is taught in German.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=57&TID=6 (7092 words)

	Lusatia - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech and Serbian Lužice, French: (la) Lusace), sometimes called Sorbia, is historical region between Bóbr-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in southeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern Czech Republic.
		It is divided into the Lower Lusatia: northern part with the main city Cottbus, and the Upper Lusatia with the main city of Bautzen.
		Sorbian interference in the German of Lusatia: Evidence from the archives of the Deutscher Sprachatlas (Germano-slavica.
	www.unipedia.info /Lusatia.html (938 words)

	Areas of work - Sorbian institute Bautzen
		The former Sorbian Ethnological Institute had in addition to a large Historical Department an entirely separate department devoted to the history of literature and, from the 1980s, to culture and art.
		Medium and long-term projects are concentrating on the comparative socio-linguistics of Lower Sorbian in the European context, the lexicology and lexicography of the modern Lower Sorbian literary language as well as the history of Lower Sorbian in the twentieth century.
		This dictionary is based primarily on a machine-readable text corpus of the Lower Sorbian literary language, which is to include in the medium term all texts published since the middle of the 19th century, and it will also be accessible in an interactive version on the Internet.
	www.serbski-institut.de /sisledzxj.html (1623 words)

	IDC Publishers - Sorbian Publications, 1693-1853
		Sorbian writings are the cultural heritage of a small West Slavic language group that used to be spoken in what is now south-eastern Germany.
		Sorbian Literature started flourishing in the end of the 18th century after being strongly influenced by the ideas of Enlightment.
		First examples of Lower Sorbian, which are translations of the Old and New Testament date back to 1796 and 1709 (the latter item used to belong to Prince Aleksei, son of Peter the Great).
	www.idc.nl /background365_1_23.html (583 words)

	MKHP Bio D
		Here, too, Lower Sorbian was the language generally used (as late as 1884 the population of about 2500 was 95% Sorbian; of the remaining 5% Germans four fifths were linguistically assimilated so that only 1% of the population did not understand Lower Sorbian).
		For the Lower Sorbian area especially the contact with Kito Šwjela (1836-1922), Hajndrich Jordan (1841-1910), Bjarnat Krušwica (1845-1919), and the non-Sorbian promotors of Sorbian literature: Juro Surowin (Georg J.J. Sauerwein, 1831-1904), and Alfons Parczewski (1849-1933) was important.
		He was regarded as the patriarch of Lower Sorbian literature and influenced the younger generation, especially Mina Witkojc (1893-1975), with whom he exchanged letters.
	www.mato-kosyk.de /engl/bio-e.htm (2361 words)

	Sorbian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nowadays, after the reunification of Germany, Sorbian languages are taught in schools and universities of East Germany, and so a sort of national revival is seen.
		Actually, they are two different languages, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian, but they are very similar to each other and have only slight differences.
		The dictionary of Sorbian, however, has suffered great and strong influence of German, and the percent of Slavic words is much lower than in other modern Slavic tongues.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/slav/sorbian.html (307 words)

	Sorbian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The present Sorbian language area includes: the former Upper Lusatian counties Weißwasser, Hoyerswerda, and Bautzen, as well as neighboring parts of the counties Senftenberg, Kamenz, Bischofswerda, Löbau and Niesky, the Lower Lusatian counties Cottbus, Spremberg, with the bordering areas of the counties Lübben, Calau, Forst and Guben.
		This, however, is not common in dialects of Lower Sorbian from Horno in the county of Guben.
		The Sorbian language is the language in which classes are conducted in Bautzen, Radibor, Crostwitz, Panschwitz-Kuckau, Ralbitz, and Cottbus as well as being a subject in all school districts with a Sorbian population.
	www.uni-leipzig.de /~sorb/engl/lang.htm (1394 words)

	Articles - Lusatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian ÅuÅ¾ica, Lower Sorbian ÅuÅ¾yca, Polish ÅuÅ¼yce, Czech LuÅ¾ice, sometimes called Sorbia, is a historical region between BÃ³br-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in northeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern Czech Republic.
		Sorbians try protect their typical culture shown in traditional clothes and styles of villages houses.
		The modern languages of Upper and Lower Lusatian (or Sorbian) were formed, national literature flourished, many national organizations were initiated like (Macica Serbska and Domowina).
	www.candlesa.com /articles/Lusatia (982 words)

	Lusatian_State
		Sorbian schools, Sorbian national party, removing Germans who were settled in Lusatia as a result of forcible migration from Poland and Czechoslovakia - these are only examples of issues raised in the declaration.
		Sorbian struggles were quite popular amongst common people in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but official circles were more cautious and hesitant.
		Sorbian is being replaced, it becomes second language, and soon it may be widely found obsolete.
	www.geocities.com /free_lusatia/Lusatian_State (7936 words)

	Untitled Document
		That is why the different institutions in which the Sorbian language, history and culture are cultivated and developed on a scientific and on a practical level are currently of great importance.
		As there is a great number of Sorbian families in which the active transmission of the language was interrupted for one or two generations, institutions need to work now against the extinction of the language.
		Aside from running Sorbian lessons, that Witaj Project, with its intensive language transmission, is carried on in the Lusatia schools.
	www.tu-cottbus.de /BTU/Fak4/projekte/intcomm/kossatze.htm (1189 words)

	Meractor Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Territorial contact between Upper and Lower Sorbian has been cut off since the beginning of the 20th century by economic and housing policy in the area of mid Luzica.
		All public use of the Sorbian language and reporting about the Sorbs in the German press was banned by the Nazis in 1937.
		A law protecting the rights of the Sorbian population was passed in the provincial parliament of Sakska (Saxony) in 1948, and in 1950 the same general principles were adopted in Braniborska (Brandenburg).
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/sorbian.htm (474 words)

	YUL Slavic & East European Microform Collection: Sorbian Publications, 1693 - 1853
		IDC Publishers is pleased to present a collection that consists of Sorbian books, periodicals, and brochures from the Biblioteka Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (Library of the Russian Academy of Science) in St. Petersburg.
		Sorbian writings - Sorbian writings are the cultural heritage of a small West Slavic language group that used to be spoken in what is now south-eastern Germany.
		Sorbian Publications, 1693-1853 is the oldest part of a vast Sorbian collection of BAN.
	www.library.yale.edu /slavic/microform/sorbian.html (713 words)

	LINGUIST List 13.795: Slavic Linguistics: Upper Sorbian
		Upper Sorbian GUNTER SCHAARSCHMIDT University of Victoria The area inhabited by the Sorbs corresponds roughly to the regions of Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz) for Upper Sorbian and Lower Lusatia (Niederlausitz) for Lower Sorbian.
		According to recent statistics (1991), the number of Upper Sorbian speakers does not exceed 53,600, a 44% reduction since the mid 1880s (by comparison, Lower Sorbian declined by 81% in the same period).
		However, Upper Sorbian (like Lower Sorbian) has a number of linguistic features that are not found in any of the other members of that group: it has retained the Old Slavic tense system with aorist, imperfect, and perfect past tenses.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/13/13-795.html (301 words)

	Canadian Slavonic Papers: Serbscina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This suggests that the term "Sorbian" is analogous to the school subject "English," i.e., the language "English" no matter where in the world it is taught, be it England, Canada, the U.S., or Australia.
		In Faska's system, serbgeina refers to "Sorbian" irrespective of where it is spoken, the Upper Sorbian or the Lower Sorbian areas.
		Chapter 2, entitled "The legal and social status of Sorbian," brings together information that was hitherto spread out in numerous hardto-get outlets on Sorbian in the GDR and post-GDR years, Sorbian in the school system and in church as well as in the press.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200009/ai_n8921128 (749 words)

	Sorbian languages - free-definition
		The Sorbian and Lusatian languages are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany.
		There are two languages - Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbsce) spoken in Saxony and Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) spoken in Brandenburg.
		Sorbian is also spoken in a small Wendish settlement in Lee County, Texas, and until recently newspapers were published in Wendish there.
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /Wen.html (173 words)

	Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
		Sorbs and Germans are particularly dedicated to preserving Sorbian national culture in the genres of music, dance, literature and the fine arts, and Sorbian and German amateur artists have worked closely together to develop this culture.
		The results of these efforts are outstanding achievements such as the competition organised each year by the Institute for Sorbian National Culture for the most beautiful Sorbian Easter egg, or the diverse range of works by individual artists in the field of national art, which bear comparison with the works of professional artists.
		An important vehicle for preserving Sorbian national culture for subsequent generations is provided by the festival of Sorbian children's theatre and young reciters and the festival of Sorbian children's songs and Sorbian music, which are traditionally organised by the Institute for Sorbian National Culture each year on an alternating basis.
	www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/istorija/historie.htm (2756 words)

	Sorbian languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The centre of the Upper Sorbian speech area is Bautzen, near the border with the Czech Republic, while Cottbus, near Poland, is the centre for Lower Sorbian.
		Although there are traces of the Slovak language in Latin documents of the 11th–15th century and in the Czech of the 14th–16th century, the earliest-known attempts to increase the use...
		West Slavic language belonging to the Lekhitic subgroup and closely related to Czech, Slovak, and the Sorbian languages of eastern Germany; it is spoken by the majority of the present population of Poland.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068739 (727 words)

	Canadian Slavonic Papers: Das Sorbische im slawischen Kontext. Ausgewahlte Studien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the exception of four essays in Upper Sorbian and one in Polish, the volume is written in German.
		He dismisses the argument that Sorbian should be regarded as a single language because of the band of transitional dialects that connects the LSo and the USo dialects proper.
		Local Sorbian clergymen therefore began producing handwritten biblical translations and other liturgical texts in either their own or their parishioners' Sorbian dialect, initially without approval from their superiors.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3763/is_200103/ai_n8929999 (1153 words)

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