Upper Sorbian

Related to Upper Sorbian: Lower Sorbian

Upper Sorbian

The West Slavic language spoken in the southern part of the historical region of Lusatia.

[Probably translation of German Obersorbisch : ober, higher (from the fact that southern Lusatia is more mountainous and at a higher elevation than northern Lusatia) + Sorbisch, Sorbian.]

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Translations

hornolužická srbštinahornolužičtina

Obersorbisch

lusaziano superiore

верхнелужицкий

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References in periodicals archive ?

It is spoken in eastern Germany and classified into two variants--namely Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian.

As I will show below, Upper Sorbian has many suffixes which produce new nouns.

Derivational suffixes -ar and -nik in Upper Sorbian

Kaulfuerst's course is on an advanced level, where the teaching is done in Upper Sorbian. The participants need to be able to summarise an entire book chapter with their own words.

Learning Sorbian in Germany

Note: Danish, Frisian, Sorbian, and Romani are official minority languages; Low German, Danish, North Frisian, Sater Frisian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, and Romani are recognized as regional languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Leipzig: Consulate General Leipzig represents American interests in Eastern Germany

In the non-specific indefinite marker stage, 'one' can be used when a newly introduced discourse participant is known to neither the hearer nor the speaker, as in the Upper Sorbian example Ja cem jen mikser mec.

In its generic use the indefinite article denotes a referent that stands for the whole class, (4) as in the Upper Sorbian example Jen tigor jo jene wulke zwerjo.

On the article-like use of the indefinite determiners jedan and neki in Croatian and other Slavic languages/0 upotrebi i funkciji neodredenih determinatora jedan i neki kao clanova u hrvatskom i drugim slavenskim jezicima (Izvorni znanstveni radovi)

Firefox 37 for Android introduces six new locales including Albanian, Burmese, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Songhai and Uzbek.

Mozilla releases Firefox 37 with improved security, new URL bar and more

The first volume contains five papers in Polish and Upper Sorbian from a conference on the Sorbs held in 1998 in Brzeg, Poland.

Serboluzyczanie: kultura i historia

Schuster-Sewc, Grammar of the Upper Sorbian Language, tr.

The survival of a culture: an interview with the Sorbian author Jurij Brezan. (WLT Interview)

Exceptions include Bulgarian, Macedonian and Upper Sorbian (3 types--without adverb-formation) and Kashubian (1 type--only verb-formation).