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	Sorbian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.encyclopedia-online.info /Sorbian (186 words)

	EUROPA - Education and Training - Europa - Regional and minority languages - Euromosaïc study
		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.
		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.
	ec.europa.eu /education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/euromosaic/de3_en.html (4305 words)

	Sorbian languages - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/o/r/Sorbian_language.html (267 words)

	Lusatian (Sorbian) Collections
		Lusatian Sorbs, also known as Lusatians, Sorbs or Wends, are perhaps the least known of the Slavonic peoples and, because of their name, are often confused with the Yugoslav Serbs.
		Lusatians are the last survivors of the once numerous Slavonic tribes who inhabited a large area between the rivers Elbe and Oder.
		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].
	www.bl.uk /collections/easteuropean/lusatian.html (1555 words)

	Slavonic languages
		The myriad differences between the dialects and languages in phonetics, grammar, and above all vocabulary may cause misunderstandings even in the simplest of conversations; and the difficulties are greater in the language of journalism, technical usage, and belles lettres, even in the case of closely connected languages.
		The Slovak literary language was formed on the basis of a Central Slovak dialect in the middle of the 19th century.
		The comparatively early rise of the West Slavic (and the westernmost South Slavic) languages as separate literary vehicles was related to a variety of religious and political factors that resulted in the decline of the western variants of the Church Slavonic language.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05slavoniclanguages.html (5789 words)

	Informat.io on Lusatia
		Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech Lužice) is a historical region between the Bóbr and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe river in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg, south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and the northern Czech Republic.
		Many still speak their language (though numbers are dwindling and Lower Sorbian especially is considered endangered), and road signs are usually bilingual.
		Lusatian schools and magazines were launched and the Domowina association was revived, although under increasing political control of the ruling Communist Party.
	www.quaest.io /?title=lusatia (1006 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 is being replaced, it becomes second language, and soon it may be widely found obsolete.
		Language policy wouldn’t depend any longer on Berlin’s caprice; Sorbian could be given a chance of becoming a real official language of the Land, hence increasing its prestige.
	www.geocities.com /free_lusatia/Lusatian_State (7936 words)

	Indo European Family of Languages The: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Students of languages and of the structures of languages, the logicians who design computers, the electronic...proponents of MT studies is the large number of languages of the world from which and into which it might be...
		English is a group of languages growing out of the West Germanic branch of the West Indo-European family of languages.
		The Indo-European...which the Baltic languages appear to be closest is the Slavic.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/indo_european_family_of_languages_the.jsp (1224 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).
		The language is best preserved in the countryside, in particular in the so-called Catholic villages west of Bautzen which, perhaps due to their traditional isolation within a predominantly Protestant region, have held more faithfully to their traditions.
	www.elsie.de /pub/b06.html (1143 words)

	Sorbian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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)

	History Channel Search Results
		Some modern Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Polish) are written in the Latin alphabet, and their speakers are predominantly Roman Catholic.
		The language written in this alphabet is known as Old Slavonic or Old Church Slavonic and is used as a liturgical language.
		For most of the Middle Ages Old Slavonic was the language of the ecclesiastical literature and of official and diplomatic documents.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..sl127100.a (353 words)

	Schaarschmidt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		That language contact, especially of a long-standing variety, can influence the historical development of the contacting languages, has been established in the literature on the subject (for a recent, comprehensive summary, see Hock 1986:380–531).
		Sorbian, a Slavic-language enclave in Germany, with few direct contacts with other Slavic languages since the sixteenth century, would seem to be a prime candidate for streamlining parts of its grammar with that of the adjacent and co-territorial dialects of German.
		Obviously, we must examine those changes in Sorbian that either did not occur at all in any of the other Slavic languages, or that have been reported to be due to German influence in these other Slavic languages as well.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2000/abstract-234.html (346 words)

	Bibliographic Standards:UKMARC Manual
		Where one spoken language is written in two different sets of characters, both languages have been included in the list but only one code has been assigned.
		An ancient language form that does not have a unique code will be assigned the code for the major language group to which it belongs instead of the code for the modern form.
		Language codes are arranged in two alphabetical sequences, by language and by language code.
	www.bl.uk /services/bibliographic/marc/marcappbl.html (369 words)

	Sorbian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
		The oldest written record of Sorbian dates from the 15th century, although the languages, differing mostly in their sound systems, are known to have begun to diverge around the 13th century.
		Upper Sorbian enjoyed a considerable amount of prestige in Saxony, while the kingdom of Prussia attempted to suppress Lower Sorbian.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05sorbian.html (132 words)

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		The Lower Lusatian Wends complain that the Lower Sorbian language that they are taught in school does not correspond with the language, they call Wendish, that they speak at home.
		She says they should also try to reach agreement on what should be taught as the standard written language and what elements of the colloquial language should be taught.
		The Sorbian School Association, which Budarjowa headed until recently, has launched an innovative "total immersion" project in which German and Sorbian kindergarten pupils are taught in a combined Sorbian- and German-language environment.
	www.rferl.org /specials/communism/10years/germany7.asp (979 words)

	Sources for Dictionaries and Language Resources
		Each language section opens with a description of where the language is spoken, the approximate number of speakers, the language family and a listing of other closely related languages.
		For those looking for a general introduction to these languages this is a very good source and includes a basic bibliography on each language.
		All languages have introductory sections, a discussion of phonology, a section on morphology, one on syntax, another on vocabulary and a final discussion on dialects.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Dictionaries/dictbib.htm (1085 words)

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		A general program that focuses on one or more modern foreign languages that is not specific as to the name of the language(s) studied; that is otherwise undifferentiated; or that introduces students to language studies at the basic/elementary level.
		Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.
		Programs may involve multiple languages and language families, not be specific as to the name of the language(s) studied, or be otherwise undifferentiated.
	nces.ed.gov /pubs2002/cip2000/ciplist.asp?CIP2=16 (3528 words)

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		BELORUSSIAN is the language of Belarus, a country to the north of Ukraine and east of Poland.
		Some lesser-known languages in the West Slavic family spoken in Europe and Russia are Sorbian (or Lusatian), Pomeranian, Kashubian and Slovincian.
		The SOUTH SLAVIC languages, mainly Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian, are spoken in southern nations which are geographically cut off from the other Slavic-speaking regions and which have thus lexically tended to develop differently.
	members.fortunecity.com /victorcauchi/s/slavic.htm (625 words)

	Slavic Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Czech, Kashubian, Lusatian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian (Upper and Lower), and Ukrainian.
		In the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies we teach modern Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
		Specialists of Slavic in MLCS have strong research interests in historical languages such as Old Church Slavic, a descendant of Old Bulgarian, which in the Eastern Church (Orthodox and Uniate Catholic) played the same role as Latin did in the Western world.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /MLCS/department/slavic.html (291 words)

	Pravica Translation Services
		However, we regularly provide translations from major West European languages into the Slavic and East European languages and vice versa.
		The Slavic languages, a subgroup of the Indo-European family of languages, consists of:
		Serbian - the official language of FR Yugoslavia, spoken in Serbia and Montenegro;*
	www.pravica.hr /eng/languages.html (124 words)

	Ethnologue: Germany
		Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland.
		Relation to sign languages of eastern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is not known.
		Officially recognized as a regional language in 8 states of Germany and in the northeastern provinces of the Netherlands.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Germ.html (1115 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The Sorbian institute
		The institute exists to promote the culture, languages and literature of the Sorbian or Wendish peoples, Slavs that came from Lusatia.
		The Sorbian languages are divided into Upper and Lower Sorbian/Lusatian.
		There are details of the biennial language course run by the institute.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=11547 (180 words)

	Sorbian Dictionary, Sorbian Fonts, Sorbian OCR, Sorbian Reference, Sorbian Software - Mac, Sorbian Software - Windows, ...
		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/Sorbian.htm (264 words)

	Czech Language Schools & Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian (extinct), and Lusatian Sorbian.
		Most adult Czechs and Slovaks are able to understand each other without difficulty as they were routinely exposed to both languages on the national TV and radio until the splitting of Czechoslovakia.
		In this regard, Czech and the Slavic languages are closer to their Indo-European origins than other languages in the same family that have lost much inflection.
	cactusdirect.org /languages/czech.php (239 words)

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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sorbian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Indo-European Family of Languages, The INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY OF LANGUAGES, THE [Indo-European Family of Languages, The] The Indo-European Family of Languages
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Sorbian" at HighBeam.
		The survival of a culture: an interview with the Sorbian author Jurij Brezan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sorbian (194 words)

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