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	Sorbian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sorbian languages (serbšćina) are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany.
		The city of Bautzen near Dresden is a centre of Upper Sorbian culture.
		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 (253 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)

	A Slav Nation in Germany - The Sorbs and their Organisations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the period when institutional support was given to the Sorbian language and culture in the GDR the Domowina was able make substantial parts of the Sorbian population aware of its national identity, and to mobilise them to preserve it actively.
		Firm commitments on this are contained in the Sorbian Laws; the "Law on Settling the Rights of the Sorbs" was passed in 1994 in Brandenburg, and in 1999 the Saxon parliament passed the "Law on the Rights of the Sorbs in the Free State of Saxony".
		The Foundation for the Sorbian People, which was established in 1991 and became an independent legal body in 1998, was created to administer the funds available and to finance projects and institutions, which have as their purpose the maintenance and support of Sorbian language and culture (research, art, culture, publishing and press).
	www.domowina.sorben.com /strony/kurzienglish.htm (1839 words)

	Christian Symmank Homepage
		The Sorbian national committee with seat in Prague persued the detachment of the Lausitz of Germany and the connection to Czechoslovakia.
		Sorbian students began with the publication of a uncensored student newspaper, which was forbidden by the Domowina leadership on behalf of the SED political office.
		In November 1989 assembled the sorbian popular assembly, whose target was the structural, programatic and personnel renewal of the Domowina and the representative of sorbian rights in the public.
	www.symmank.de /eng/sorbshistory.htm (3234 words)

	Euromosaic - Sorbian language use survey
		This is an extension of the inter-generational pattern, with 75% of the parents of the respondents having married a partner from the same or neighbouring district.
		Given that 90% of the respondents were born within the Sorbian area and a further 3% moved to live in the area before the age of four, the degree of endogamy is discernible.
		The most Sorbian of the religious activities by language would appear to be the stilles gebet (private prayer) with 41% claiming Sorbian only and a further 21% claiming both Sorbian and German for such an activity.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/sorab/an/e1/e1.html (4846 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)

	Sorbian in Germany
		Sorbian, or Serbska rêc/Serbska rêc, is a Western Slavonic language, spoken in the region of Lower and Upper Lusatia.
		Nowadays Sorbian is spoken in two main and relatively different dialects: Lower Sorbian/Wendisch in Lower Lusatia (in the area of the former tribe of the Lunsici) and Upper Sorbian in Upper Lusatia (in the area of the former tribe of the Milzane).
		Sorbian is taught as a subject: one hour a week in grade 1, three hours a week in grade 2-6, but only as an additional supply to the regular programme.
	www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_sorbian_in_germany.htm (7520 words)

	Essentialism and Relativism in Gaelic and Sorbian Language Revival Discourses
		Gaelic and Sorbian form enclaves in extremely influential, Germanic languages and are closely related to official languages of neighbouring countries (Irish in the case of Gaelic, Polish and Czech in the case of Sorbian).
		The Sorbian language and more broadly Sorbian culture were publicly denigrated as backward and undesirable, and outspoken Sorbian intellectuals found themselves accused of betraying their fatherland.
		Sorbian culture is defended as a set of ethical and aesthetic commitments, as a source of dignity, mental growth and community.
	www.arts.ed.ac.uk /celtic/poileasaidh/seminarwebversion2.html (9801 words)

	YUL Slavic & East European Microform Collection: Sorbian Publications, 1693 - 1853
		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 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.library.yale.edu /slavic/microform/sorbian.html (713 words)

	The Sorbian Central Library/The Sorbian Cultural Archives - Sorbian institute Bautzen
		The Sorbian Central Library collects all works of literature written in Sorbian as well as all works published on the Sorbs and Lusatia, and thus has almost acquired the status of a national library.
		In the meantime the Sorbian Cultural Archives have become a central collection point for Sorbian material as well as for literature relevant to Sorbian studies, holding important manuscripts that are crucial for the study of contemporary Sorbian cultural practice and historical research, and making them available to those wishing to use them.
		In 1962 two dozen Sorbian cultural and educational institutions and associations made the decision to deposit their archive material in the Sorbian Cultural Archives, after a certain period of time had lapsed.
	www.serbski-institut.de /sibiblj1.html (689 words)

	SORBIAN CULTURAL INFORMATION
		The Sorbian "Sokoł" (Falcon) is an umbrella union of Sorbian sports associations, groups, teams and other organizations, which was at the height of its activity between 1920 -1933.
		The Sorbian Youth Association "Pawk" (Spider) was established in 1995 and engages itself mainly in the activities of the preservation, development and promotion of the Sorbian language and culture among youth.
		The Sorbian School Association was established in Chrósćicy (Crostwitz) in 1991, uniting teachers, educators, interested parents, and retired teachers.
	ski.sorben.com /site/docs/english/ski.htm (1204 words)

	Sorbian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Important documents in the history of the written Sorbian language are: "Fragment of a Agenda" (1543) by Zossen, the translation of the New Testament (1548) by M. Jakubica from Laubnitz, a handwritten hymnal and the "Wolfenbüttel Psaltery".
		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)

	Meractor Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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).
		Since 1994 the Sorbian languages have been adopted as part of the curriculum in the schools of Sakska (Saxony) and Braniborska (Brandenburg) as foreign languages.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/sorbian.htm (474 words)

	Lusatian (Sorbian) Collections
		The earliest Sorbian printed text in the British Library dates from 1603 and is the Lord's Prayer contained in Hieronymus Megiser's Specimen quinquaginta (Frankfurt, 1603) [G.20009], a collection of the Lord's Prayer in 50 languages.
		Study of the Sorbian language began in the 17th century and the British Library has the earliest Upper Lusatian grammar; Principia lingua Wendicae by the Jesuit J. Ticinus, published in Prague in 1679 [G.16748] and Abraham Frencel's celebrated dictionary De originibus linguae Sorabicae (1694) [68.a.15(1)] and [1333.e.22].
		Poetry in Sorbian began to flourish and was mostly published in periodicals that started to appear in the second half of the 19th century.
	www.bl.uk /collections/easteuropean/lusatian.html (1555 words)

	Sorbian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sorbs number about 155,000 and are centered largely in the valley of the upper Spree River in Lusatia, a former region of eastern Germany and southwestern Poland.
		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.
		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)

	Amazon.com: Books: Sorbian (Wendish)-English English-Sorbian (Wendish) Concise Dictionary (Concise Dictionaries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a superb little dictionary that gives the outsider an insight into Sorbian culture.
		For example, Sorbian has a special word for the Irish people and the Scottish people (using a common ending -ojo).
		Whereas the majority of the Sorbian people can also speak German, an effort by a foreigner to use some of the local language would, without doubt, be enthusiastically received.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0781807808?v=glance (526 words)

	Lower Sorbian Fonts, Lower Sorbian Software - Mac, Lower Sorbian Software - Windows, Lower Sorbian System,
		Sorbian, also known by the names of Wendish and Lusatian, is a Slavic language spoken in Lusatia, the southeastemmost part of East Germany bisected by the River Spree.
		Although surrounded by German speakers for centuries, the Sorbs have preserved their Slavic speech, and the study and propagation of the language is strongly encouraged today by the German government.
		Upper Sorbian, centered in the city of Bautzen to the south (the word "upper" refers to the level rather than the location of the land), is closer to Czech.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/LowerSorbian.htm (251 words)

	About Wends and Sorbs - Immigration in Australia
		For several decades now the German Government has been supporting the maintenance of Sorbian culture and language in Lusatia.
		Sorbs make up about 10% of the population of Lusatia, though in some local communities in the Kreis (District) of Kamenz, up to 90 per cent of the population is Sorbian.
		Approximately 45,000 Sorbs are still Sorbian speakers; all Sorbs speak German as well.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /dnutting/germanaustralia/e/sorbs.htm (331 words)

	OHCHR: Sorbian () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It belongs to the Indo-European family, Slavonic group, West Slavonic subgroup and is spoken by 20,000 people in an area known as Luzica (Lusatia), which is within the German federal Länder of Braniborska (Brandenburg) and Sakska (Sachsen/Saxony), though there are more than 100,000 ethnic Sorbs living in Germany.
		Only a small part of them now speak this language regularly at home and nearly all of them are bilingual in German.
		Reference is usually made to the two variants, Upper Sorbian, spoken around Budysin (Bautzen) and considered the main variety (very close to Slovak)and Lower Sorbian spoken around Chosebuz (Cottbus).
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/wee.htm (1494 words)

	GeoNative - Sorbian - Serbscina
		Sorbian (Serbscina) is a Slavic language spoken in Lusatia (Lausitz or Luzica), within Germany, in what was Eastern Germany.
		Two variants are spoken: Upper Sorbian around Budysin (Upper Lusatia) and Lower Sorbian around Chosebuz (Lower Lusatia).
		Territorial contact between Upper and Lower Sorbian has been cut in the 20th century.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/sorb.html (181 words)

	Projekat Rastko - Luzica / Project Rastko - Lusatia
		Similarly almost half spoke German only with their colleagues compared with only 9% who spoke only Sorbian with their colleagues.
		3 (-) Sorbian is a dying language ("Sorbisch ist eine sterbende Sprache")
		6 (+) In order to work in the public sector in the Sorbian area, one should be able to speak Sorbian ("Wenn jemand im öffentlichen Bereich des sorbischen Gebietes arbeitet, sollte er in der Lage sein, Sorbisch zu sprechen")
	www.rastko.org.yu /rastko-lu/jezik/euromosaic-sorbian_survey.html (4866 words)

	Sorbian Dictionary, Sorbian Fonts, Sorbian OCR, Sorbian Reference, Sorbian Software - Mac, Sorbian Software - Windows, ...
		Despite its small number of speakers (about 50,000), and the small area in which it is spoken, Sorbian has two distinct dialects.
		Lower Sorbian, spoken in the vicinity of Cottbus to the north, more closely resembles Polish.
		The poem below, by the Sorbs' most famous poet, is given in each of the two dialects.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Sorbian.htm (253 words)

	Sorbian:Directory,Science,Social Sciences,Linguistics,Languages,Natural,Indo-European,Slavic,Sorbian Websites & Sorbian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Article in the Christian Science Monitor about the Sorbs' history and efforts to preserve their language and culture.
		Geographical and language background, general history and history of the language, legal status and official policies, the use of the language in various fields.
		General information from the University of Wales about the current status of Sorbian, a Slavic minority language spoken in the LÃ¤nder of Brandenburg and Saxony in Germany.
	www.cerco.org /Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Slavic/Sorbian (110 words)

	Slavic/Slavonic languages (Old Church Slavonic, Sorbian)
		- a good introduction to the Slavonic languages containing information about the history, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexiography and dialects of Proto-Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, Polish, Cassubian, Polabian, Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian.
		Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sorbian, Ukrainian
		The Domowina People's Press produces a range of publications in and about Sorbian, including newspapers, journals, books, language courses, dictionaries and grammars: http://www.domowina-verlag.de
	www.omniglot.com /books/language/slavic.htm (159 words)

	The Krabat Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alright, what are we going to do now?
		The Sorbian page - Serbska strona (in Sorbian)
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	www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de /%7Eheidusch/index.html (71 words)

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