There are 2 literary languages: Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbsce), spoken by about 55,000 humans within Saxony, and Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) spoken by about 14,000 humans inside Brandenburg. A region in which them languages come spoken is referred to as Lusatia (Å?užica in Upper Sorbian, Å?užyca within Lower Sorbian, or even Lausitz around German).

Two languages own dual grammatical number; they are among a super couple residing Indo-European languages to retain this feature (a more existence Slovenian). A dual is utilized after exactly ii humans or even items come intended & is additionally to singular and plural.

Around Germany Upper & Lower Sorbian come officially recognized & protected when minority languages.

A city of Bautzen near Dresden is a centre of Upper Sorbian culture. Notability is a fact that bilingual signs may be seen about a city including a title of the city itself at the train depot given when 'Bautzen/Budyšín'.

A city of Cottbus (Chóśebuz) is considered the ethnical centre of Lower Sorbian; on this text as well bilingual signs come incurred.

Sorbian is as well spoken around the little Wendish payout of Serbin in Lee County, Texas, and until recently newspapers were published in Wendish there. It has been heavy influenced by surrounding speakers of German and English.

Understand likewise: Sorbs, Wends, Sorbian alphabet