<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id=":11j" class="ii gt"><div id=":11i"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">
=====================================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 11 September 2011 - Volume 02<br>
<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a>
- <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/</a><br>
Posting: <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><br>
Archive: <a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html" target="_blank">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html</a><br>
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)<br>
Language Codes: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/codes.php" target="_blank">lowlands-l.net/codes.php</a><br>
=====================================================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Pat Barrett</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Phonology" 2011.09.10 (02) [EN]</span><br>
<br>
<div><font size="2">BTW, if we're not getting too far afield here, how
are Sorbian/Lusatian/Wendish doing? They were spoken around Bautzen and Kottbus,
I believe, which would have been in Eastern Germany. How did they fare then and
how are they faring now, if anyone knows?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Re nomenclature: they call themselves Sorbs but are
better known to English speakers as Lusatian. Wend, I believe, is pejorative. My
source is R.G.A. deBray's Guide to the Slavonic Languages, a book mentioned as
pro-Communist or pro-Soviet, but which mentions the "indifference of all the
Great Powers" in the 1950s.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="2">Pat Barrett <a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a><br><a href="http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php" target="_blank">http://ideas.lang-learn.us/barrett.php</a><br><br>
----------<br><br></font>From: R. F. Hahn <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Language diversity<br><br>Hi, Pat!<br><br>It does take us a little far afield. The only ways the two Sorbian are relevant is that (1) they are minority languages of Germany (as are Low Saxon and Frisian), and that (2) some northern Lower Sorbian dialects at least used to have contacts with some Brandenburg Low Saxon dialects. (Polabian, Slovincian and Kashubian [the latter two being Pomeranian Slavic], on the other hand, used to have very intensive contacts with Low Saxon).<br>
<br>As for Sorbian, I recommend you read my introduction: <br><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/serbscina-info.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/serbscina-info.php</a><br><br>Please also take a look at the following: <br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_languages</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs</a><br><br>Please also bear in mind that today's Lusatia is only a tiny remnant of the original land, which stretch from around Dresden to some distance east of the Lusatian Neisse (in today's Poland) and from just south of Berlin to today's German-Czech border. The city of <span lang="hsb">Zhorjelc</span> (Lower Sorbian <span lang="dsb"><i>Zgórjelc</i></span>, German <i>Görlitz</i>, Polish <i>Zgorzelec</i>, Czech <i>Zhořelec</i>) was the original Lusatian center.<span lang="hsb"><i></i></span> </div>
<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">=========================================================<br>
Send posting submissions to <a href="mailto:lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>.<br>
Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.<br>
Send commands (including "signoff lowlands-l") to<br>
<a href="mailto:listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>
or <a href="mailto:lowlands.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">lowlands.list@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#%21/group.php?gid=118916521473498" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=118916521473498</a><br>
========================================================== </p>
</div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div>
</div></div>