Sorbian
Name of the language
MJENO RĚČE
Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian
Serbšćina (hornjoserbsce a dolnoserbski)
Number of total speakers
LIČBA RĚČNIKOW
Estimations range from 20,000 to 30,000 (no specific statistics available)
mjez 20.000 a 30.000
Number of native spakers
No data
Regulated by
RHEOLEIDDIR GAN
Law on the Rights of the Sorbs in the Free State of Saxony and Law on the Arrangement of the Rights of the Sorbs/Wends in the State of Brandenburg.
“Zakoń wo prawach Serbow w Swobodnym staće Sakskej” a “Kazń k rědowanju pšawow Serbow w kraju Bramborska”
Geographical area
GEOGRAFISKE ROZŠĚRJENJE
Sorbian is spoken in an area called Lusatia. Geographically, the two standardized Sorbian languages can be divided in Upper Sorbian, spoken in Upper Lusatia in Saxony, and Lower Sorbian spoken in Lower Lusatia in Brandenburg.
Serbšćina rěči so přewažnje we Łužicy. Serbšćina dźěli so do: hornjoserbšćiny, kotraž so w sakskej Hornjej Łužicy rěči a delnjoserbšćiny, kotraž so w braniborskej Delnjej Łužicy rěči.
Language family
RĚČNA SWÓJBA
Slavonic (Western Slavonic)
Słowjanske rěče (zapadosłowjanske rěče)
Status of the language
OFICIELNY STATUS
Official status in Brandenburg and the free state of Saxony.
Hamtska rěč w Braniborskej a Sakskej
Status at the University
STATUS WE WUČBJE
Currently, the Sorbian educational infrastructure consists of 41 day-care centres and 15 after-school facilities, 41 primary schools, nine secondary schools and four grammar schools where Sorbian is taught as a native, secondary, or foreign language, or through immersion programs. All Sorbian schools are public schools. At a university level, Sorbian can be studied at the Institute for Sorbian Studies at the University of Leipzig.
Tuchwilu wobsteji serbska kubłanska infrastruktura z 41 pěstowarnjow a 15 hortow, 41 zakładnych šulow, dźewjeć sekundarnych šulow a štyrjoch gymnazijow, na kotrychž so serbšćina jako maćerna, druha abo cuza rěč abo přez imersijne programy wuwučuje. Wšitke serbske šule su zjawne šule. Na uniwersitnym niwowje móže so sorabistika na Instituće za serbske studije při Lipšćanskeje uniwersity studować.
Fields of use
NAŁOŽOWANSKI WOBŁUK
Public administration, Sorbian cultural institutions, media (radio and television: MDR, newspapers: Serbske nowiny in Upper Sorbian and Nowy Casnik in Lower Sorbian and other online services), education and leisure.
Zjawne zarjadnistwo, serbske kulturne zarjadnišća, medije (radijo, telewizija, časopisy, nowiny a druhe online-słužby), kubłanje a turizm.
Member(s) of the NPLD