an article about Lusatians, last natives on the territory of eastern Germany that survived cruel germanization of western Slavs... interesting info in case with their language...
The very existence of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority in Germany, may be a surprise to many.
No reliable statistics are available as to the number of Sorbian speakers today and their distribution. The traditional figure is 100,000. It is estimated, however, that only about 30,000 people are able to use the language, virtually all of whom speak German too. Indeed, one of the results of long years of bilingualism among the Sorbs has been that Sorbian no longer serves as an essential language of communication in the region.
Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) is spoken in the marshy Spree Forest of Lower Lusatia around the town of Cottbus (Chosebuz), about one hundred kilometres southeast of Berlin. It is used by far fewer people than Upper Sorbian and seems to be well on the road to extinction.
Together with Czech, Slovak, Polish, Kashubian and the now extinct Polabian language, Sorbian constitutes part of the Western group of Slavic languages.
Raed more... Source:
Anthology of Sorbian Poetry
Robert Elsie, ISBN 0-948259-72-8
Forest Books, London & Boston 1990
84 pp.
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Germanisationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanization
Germanisation (also spelled Germanization) is either the spread of the German language, people and culture either by force or assimilation,...
Historical Germanisation
Early Germanisation went along with the Ostsiedlung during the Middle Ages, e.g. in Hanoverian Wendland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lusatia and other areas, formerly inhabited by Slavic tribes - Polabian Slavs such as Obotrites, Veleti and Sorbs. Relations of early forms of germanization was described by German monks in manuscripts like Chronicon Slavorum.
Lüchow-Dannenberg is better known as the Wendland, a designation referring to the Slavic people of the Wends from Slavic tribe Drevani - the Polabian language survived until the beginning of the 19th century in what is now the German state of Lower Saxony.
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You are OUT man. Serbs and all Slavs already knows simple truth that Kosovo is Serbia and Slavija.
But, Kosovo isn`t topic of this thread. If you want start another thread and I WOULD GIVE YOU MORE