Sorbian

Sorbian

Sorbian may refer to more than one article:

*the Sorbs, a Slavic people in modern day Germany
*the Sorbian language(s), a group of closely related West Slavic languages


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  • Sorbian — [sôr′bē ən] n., adj. LUSATIAN …   English World dictionary

  • Sorbian — 1. noun A group of Slavic languages spoken by a minority in eastern Germany. Syn: Lusatian, Wendish See Also: Lower Sorbian, Sorb, Upper Sorbian 2 …   Wiktionary

  • Sorbian — noun 1. a speaker of Sorbian • Hypernyms: ↑Slav • Member Holonyms: ↑Germany, ↑Federal Republic of Germany, ↑Deutschland, ↑FRG 2. a Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany …   Useful english dictionary

  • Sorbian languages — Infobox Language family name=Sorbian altname=Wendish, Lusatian region=Lusatia familycolor=Indo European fam1=Indo European fam2=Balto Slavic fam3=Slavic fam4=West Slavic child1=Upper Sorbian child2=Lower Sorbian iso2=wenThe Sorbian languages are… …   Wikipedia

  • Sorbian alphabet — The Sorbian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as the acute accent and the caron. The standard character encoding for the Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859 2 (Latin 2).The alphabet is used for the Sorbian languages,… …   Wikipedia

  • Sorbian March — The Sorb(ian) March ( la. limes Sorabicus; de. Sorbenmark) was a frontier district on the eastern border of East Francia in the 9th through 11th centuries. It was composed of several counties bordering the Sorbs. The Sorbian march seems to have… …   Wikipedia

  • Sorbian languages — also called  Lusatian, or Wendish,         closely related West Slavic languages or dialects; their small number of speakers in eastern Germany are the survivors of a more extensive medieval language group. The centre of the Upper Sorbian speech… …   Universalium

  • Sorbian — adjective or noun see Sorb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Sorbian — /sawr bee euhn/, adj. 1. of or pertaining to the Wends or their language. n. 2. Also called Lusatian, Wendish. a Slavic language spoken by an isolated group in E Germany. 3. a Wend. [1830 40; SORB + IAN] * * * …   Universalium

  • Sorbian — n. Wend; Sorb n. Slavic language of the Sorbs; Slavic language spoken in rural area in southeast Germany adj. of or pertaining to the Wends or Sorbs; of or pertaining to the language of the Wends or Sorbs …   English contemporary dictionary

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