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--- languages:sorbian_in_germany [2020/02/24 10:33] – [European legislation:] ydwine
+++ languages:sorbian_in_germany [2025/06/18 10:25] (current) – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
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 ==== Language vitality according to: ====
-^ [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/|UNESCO*]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hsb/|Ethnologue]] ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4280|Endangered Languages]] ^
-|{{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |Definitely endangered}}| {{ :endangerment:blue.png?nolink |Developing}} | {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink |vulnerable}}|
-<sup> 1) UNESCO makes no distinction between Lower and Upper Sorbian. 2) The language vitality of Ethnologue and Endangered Languages reflect Upper Sorbian, not Lower Sorbian. </sup>
+^  ^ [[https://en.wal.unesco.org/search?keys=sorbian|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/subgroup/4255/|Ethnologue]] ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4280|Endangered Languages]] ^  [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/uppe1395|Glottolog]]  ^
+| Lower Sorbian  |  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|Definitely endangered}}  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|Endangered}}  |   {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|Threatened}}  |  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|shifting}}  |
+| Upper Sorbian  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|Endangered/unsafe}}  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|Endangered}}  |  {{:endangerment:blue.png?nolink|Vulnerable}}  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|threatened}}  |
+<sup> Click [[manual:colour_codes|here]] for a full overview of the language vitality colour codes. </sup>
 ==== Linguistic aspects: =====
   * Classification: Indo-European → Slavic. For more information, see [[http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lowe1385|lowe1385]] at [[http://glottolog.org/|Glottolog]]
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 ====== Education in practice ======
-Especially Lower Sorbian dialects are vanishing due to the learning of the standard language in school.((Brĕzan, Beate, and Měto Nowak, ‘The Sorbian Language in Education in Germany, 2nd Edition’, ed. by Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, Mercator Regional Dossiers <http://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/dossiers_pdf/sorbian_in_germany_web.pdf>))
+Especially Lower Sorbian dialects are vanishing due to the learning of the standard language in school.((Brĕzan, B. and M. Nowak. (2016). //The Sorbian Language in Education in Germany, 2nd Edition//. Retrieved February 19, 2020, from [[https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/documents/regional_dossiers/sorbian_in_germany_2nd.pdf]].)).
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     * [[https://www.cottbus.de/wissenswert/sorbische_institutionen/|Arbeitsstelle Bildungsentwicklung Cottbus]].
     * [[http://www.sbi.smk.sachsen.de/|Saxon Education Institute]].
+online resources:
+  * [[https://soblex.de/| Soblex]] German-Upper Sorbian / Upper Sorbian-German dictionary and inflection tables
+  * [[https://dolnoserbski.de/|Dolnoserbski:]] dictionaries, corpora and other resources for Lower Sorbian
+  * [[https://hornjoserbsce.de/|Hornjoserbsce]] German-Upper Sorbian dictionary
+  * [[https://sotra.app/|Sotra]] automatic translator between Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian and German
+  * [[https://sprachkurs.sorbischlernen.de/#/welcome| Sorbisch Lernen:]] Both Upper and Lower Sorbian online course at A1 and A2 level (German and English as base languages) and for level B1 (Sorbian)
+  * [[https://krokpokroku.sorbischlernen.de/lekcije|Krok po kroku]] - Upper Sorbian intermediate grammar online course
+  * [[https://kšacpókšacu.sorbischlernen.de/lekcije/| Kšac pó kšacu]] Lower Sorbian intermediate grammar online course
+  * [[http://www.sorbische-wendische-sprachschule.de/| Sorbische Wendische Sprachschule:]] website of the Lower Sorbian School of Language and Culture
 Different methods are available for teaching Sorbian as a first language, and as a foreign language.
 ==== Teacher training ====
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 ====== Mercator's Regional Dossier ======
-[[http://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/dossiers_pdf/sorbian_in_germany_web.pdf|{{:images:dossier.png?nolink|}}]][[https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/documents/regional_dossiers/ladin_in_italy_2nd.pdf|Read more]] about Sorbian language education in Mercator's Regional Dossier (2016).
+[[http://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/dossiers_pdf/sorbian_in_germany_web.pdf|{{:images:dossier.png?nolink|}}]][[https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/documents/regional_dossiers/sorbian_in_germany_2nd.pdf|Read more]] about Sorbian language education in Mercator's Regional Dossier (2016).