Upper Sorbian ( endonym : hornjoserbšćina ), occasionally referred to as Wendish , is a minority language spoken by Sorbs , in the historical province of Upper Lusatia , which is today part of Saxony , Germany . It is grouped in the West Slavic language branch, together with Lower Sorbian , Czech , Polish , Silesian , Slovak , and Kashubian .
7-662: Guteborn ( Upper Sorbian Wudwor ) is a municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district of Upper Lusatia , Brandenburg , Germany . From 1815 to 1825, Guteborn was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg , from 1825 to 1919 of the Province of Silesia , from 1919 to 1938 of the Province of Lower Silesia , again from 1938 to 1941 of the Province of Silesia and again from 1941 to 1945 of
14-577: The 12th century, there was a massive influx of rural Germanic settlers from Flanders , Saxony , Thuringia and Franconia . This so-called " Ostsiedlung " (eastern settlement or expansion) led to a slow but steady decline in use of the 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,
21-633: The Province of Lower Silesia. From 1945 to 1952 it was part of Saxony and from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany . This Brandenburg location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Upper Sorbian language The history of the Upper Sorbian language in Germany began with the Slavic migrations during the 6th century AD. Beginning in
28-636: The Sorbian language was forbidden in Berne castle before the courts; in 1327 it was forbidden in Zwickau and Leipzig , and from 1424 on it was forbidden in Meissen . Further, there was the condition in many guilds of the cities of the area to accept only members of German-language origin. However, the central areas of the Milzener and Lusitzer , in the area of today's Lusatia , were relatively unaffected by
35-609: The latter context, /x/ is voiced to [ ɣ ] . Regressive voicing assimilation does not occur before sonorants and /h/ . The Lord's Prayer in Upper Sorbian: Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Upper Sorbian: (All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in
42-517: The new German language settlements and legal restrictions. The language therefore flourished there. By the 17th century, the number of Sorbian speakers in that area grew to over 300,000. The oldest evidence of written Upper Sorbian is the Burger Eydt Wendisch document, which was discovered in the city of Bautzen and dates to the year 1532. There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 speakers of Upper Sorbian. Almost all of these live in
49-502: The state of Saxony , chiefly in the district of Bautzen (Budyšin). The stronghold of the language is the village of Crostwitz (Chrósćicy) and the surrounding municipalities, especially to the west of it. In this core area, Upper Sorbian remains the predominant vernacular. The vowel inventory of Upper Sorbian is exactly the same as that of Lower Sorbian . Upper Sorbian has both final devoicing and regressive voicing assimilation , both word-internal and across word boundaries. In
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