Lower Sorbian

Facts

  • Language: Lower Sorbian
  • Alternate names: Sorbian, Sorbian (Lower), Lusatian, Wendish, Lower Lusatian, Low Sorbian, Lower Wendish, Dolna Lužica, Southern Lusatian, Saxon Lusatian, Lower Sorbian, Niedersorbisch, Bas Sorabe, Dolnoserbski, Delnoserbski, Wendisch, Sorbian, Lower
  • Language code: dsb
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, West Slavic, Sorbian
  • Number of speakers: 7,240
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Sorbian has lost much of its former public support after the unification of Germany. Many Sorbian schools have been closed (2007).

    Lower Sorbian is spoken in Germany, Europe.