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Polabian
Slüvensťă rec / Vensťĕ
The first page of Vocabularium Venedicum
Pronunciation
/slyˈvɛˑn.stʲɐrɛt͡s/
Native to
Germany
Extinct
3 October 1756 (death of Emerentz Schultze)[1]
Revival
21st century; ≥5 known L2 speakers[2]
Language family
Indo-European
Balto-Slavic
Slavic
West Slavic
Lechitic[3]
West Lechitic[4]
Polabian
Language codes
ISO 639-3
pox
Linguist List
pox
Glottolog
pola1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-bc
Grey: Former settlement area of the Polabian Slavs. Green: Uninhabited forest areas. Darker shade just indicates higher elevation.
The Polabian language,[a] also known as Drevanian–Polabian language,[b]Drevanian language,[c] and Lüneburg Wendish language,[d] is a West Slavic language that was spoken by the Polabian Slavs (German: Wenden) in present-day northeastern Germany around the Elbe. It was spoken approximately until the rise to power of Prussia in the mid-18th century – when it was superseded by Low German – in the areas of Pomoré (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania), central (Mittelmark) part of Branibor (Brandenburg) and eastern Saxony-Anhalt (Wittenberg originally part of Béla Serbia), as well as in eastern parts of Wendland (Lower Saxony) and Dravänia (Schleswig-Holstein), Ostholstein and Lauenburg). Polabian was also relatively long (until the 16th century) spoken in and around the cities of Bukovéc (Lübeck), Starigard (Oldenburg) and Trava (Hamburg). The very poorly attested Slavic dialects of Rügen seemed to have had more in common with Polabian than with Pomeranian varieties.[5] In the south, it bordered on the Sorbian language area in Lusatia.
By the 18th century, Lechitic Polabian was in some respects markedly different from other Slavic languages, most notably in having a strong German influence. It was close to Pomeranian and Kashubian, and is attested only in a handful of manuscripts, dictionaries and various writings from the 17th and 18th centuries.
^Kapović (2008), p. 109.
^"Słownik nowopołabsko-polski".
^"Lekhitic languages". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Archived from the original on 9 March 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
^Lehr-Spławiński (1934), p. 26.
^Lehr-Spławiński, Tadeusz (1922). "Szczątki języka dawnych słowiańskich mieszkańców wyspy Rugii". Slavia Occidentalis (in Polish). II: 114–136.
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The Polabianlanguage, also known as Drevanian–Polabianlanguage, Drevanian language, and Lüneburg Wendish language, is a West Slavic language that was...
descendants of the Polabian Slavs to have retained their identity and culture. The Polabianlanguage is now extinct. However, the two Sorbian languages are spoken...
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study also did not cover the so-called Old Novgordian dialect, the Polabianlanguage and some other Slavic lects. The above Kassian-Dybo's research did...
subgroups: Lechitic, including Polish, Kashubian, and the extinct Polabian and Pomeranian languages; Sorbian in the region of Lusatia; and Czecho–Slovak in the...
speaking Slavic dialects (Polabianlanguage), although subsequently their language was displaced by German. The Polabianlanguage survived until the beginning...
Wendisch. The name Berlin has its roots in the language of the West Slavs, and may be related to the Old Polabian stem berl-/birl- ("swamp"). Of Berlin's twelve...
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Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum. The Polabianlanguage survived until the beginning of the 19th century in what is now the...
the Baltic Sea (Vendland), and the term was therefore used to refer to Polabian Slavs like the Obotrites, Rugian Slavs, Veleti/Lutici, and Pomeranian tribes...
of Kashubian. Kashubian languagePolabianlanguage Lorentz 1908, pp. 391. Lorentz 1912, pp. 1520. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed...
Christianization of Western Pomerania. The name of the town derives from Old-Polabian from the word *gardec < *gordьcь, meaning "small fortified settlement"...
an der Havel (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁandn̩bʊʁk ʔan deːɐ̯ ˈhaːfl̩] ; Polabian: Brenna) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, which served as the capital...
from Low German and the extinct Polabian (West Slavic) and Old Prussian (West Baltic) languages. The Kashubian language exists in two different forms:...
the extinct Polabianlanguage. All these languages except Polish are sometimes classified as a Pomeranian subgroup. The West Slavic Languages are a subfamily...
Sometimes it is considered a dialect of Polish; Polabian, extinct since the mid-18th century, a West Lechitic language formerly spoken by Slavic peoples in areas...
existed only as a spoken language. The closest relatives of Polish are the Elbe and Baltic Sea Lechitic dialects (Polabian and Pomeranian varieties)...
Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen, and remains a popular tourism destination. The Polabian name for Uelzen is Wilcaus (spelled Wiltzaus in older German reference...
following the Wendish Crusade in the 11th century. The Sorbs and other Polabian Slavs like Obodrites and Veleti came under the domination of the Holy Roman...
the River Oder, an area later entitled Germania Slavica, settled by the Polabian Slav tribes in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni...
vernaculars" of Upper Silesia and other Slavic varieties such as Kashubian and Polabian. The United States Immigration Commission in 1911 classified it as one...
Modern Polish language. Other linguists relate the Pomeranian language to the Polabian group of dialects (forming the Pomeranian-Polabian group). After...
Slavic is divided into three subgroups: West Slavic includes Polish, Polabian, Czech, Knaanic, Slovak, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Silesian and Kashubian...
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