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Lower Sorbian language - Definition and Overview
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Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski)
Spoken in: Germany
Region: Brandenburg
Total speakers: 14,000
Ranking: Not in top 100
Genetic classification: Indo-European

 Slavic
  West
   Sorbian
    Lower Sorbian

Official status
Official language of: Germany
Regulated by: --
Language codes
ISO 639-1--
ISO 639-2dsb
SILWEE


Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) is a minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia, today part of Brandenburg.

Orthography

The Lower Sorbian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as acute accent and hacek. The standard character encoding for the Lower Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2).

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