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The Sorb (Wends) are a minority group in the Eastern part of Germany. This region has been known as Luzica/Lusatia/Lausitz (Sorb/English/German respectively), and approximately 80,000 to 100,000 people consider themselves of Sorb ethnicity. Of these, approximately 60,000 still speak the Sorb language as their mother tongue. The Sorb people are of Slavonic background and constitute the smallest of the eleven Slavonic nations in Europe. The region is divided into Upper Lusatia and Lower Lusatia according to geographic features, with Upper Sorb and lower Sorb being spoken respectively in each region. The survival of these people after 1,000 years of suppression is unique, considering most other small ethnic communities in Europe disappeared by 1900.
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Hall, B. (1997). Sorb-German Bilingual Education. In: Cummins, J., Corson, D. (eds) Bilingual Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4531-2_15
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