Lower Sorbian

Western Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia

Class type of: Sorbian Q13286

Facts

14 properties

Instance of: natural language, modern language^[4]
Country: Germany^[3]
Subclass of: Sorbian
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 51.750°, 14.500°
Short name: ніжнелужыцкая^[11]
Ethnologue language status: 8a Moribund^[20]
Has grammatical case: nominative case, genitive case, dative case, accusative case, instrumental case, locative case^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]
Has grammatical gender: masculine, feminine, neuter^[21]^[22]^[23]
Has grammatical number: singular, dual, plural^[24]^[25]^[26]
Indigenous to: Brandenburg^[13]
Native label: dolnoserbšćina, dolnoserbski, dolnoserbska rěc^[8]^[9]^[10]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers: +6670^[7]
UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered^[12]
Writing system: Latin script, Lower Sorbian alphabet^[5]^[6]

🏷️ Also known as

en Lower Sorbian en Dolnoserbski en Dolnoserbšćina en Lower Sorbian language ar صوربية سفلى ar لغة صوربية سفلى ar الصوربية السفلى cs dolnolužická srbština de Wendisch de wendische Sprache de niedersorbische Sprache de Niedersorbisch el Κάτω Σορβική γλώσσα es sorbio inferior es bajo sórabo es bajo lusacio es bajo sorabo es bajo sorbio es sorabo inferior es sórabo inferior

🔖 Identifiers · 25

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85078668
GND ID: 4120286-7
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300443634
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 13318848f
Dewey Decimal Classification: 491.88, 6--9188
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/Lower-Sorbian-language
Endangeredlanguages.com ID: 4109
Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID: c9a2
Ethnologue.com language code: dsb
Exact match: data.linguistik.de
Freebase ID: /m/01qvkl
Glottolog code: lowe1385

Show all 25 identifiers +13

IETF language tag: dsb
ISO 639-2 code: dsb
ISO 639-3 code: dsb
ISOCAT ID: 647
KBpedia ID: LowerSorbianLanguage
LC and MARC vocabularies ID: languages/dsb, iso639-2/dsb
Lingua Libre ID: Slovakia
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007538499805171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 6691
POSIX locale identifier: dsb
Topic's main category: Category:Lower Sorbian language
WALS lect code: srl
Yale LUX ID: concept/bf76e066-65c1-4793-8689-1ae7ca2409c9

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🔗 Connections

← Languages spoken, written or signed 24

Johann Crüger, Mina Witkojc, Jurij Koch, Mato Kósyk, Georg Sauerwein, Bogumił Šwjela, Johann Bocatius, Albin Moller +16 more

← Category combines topics 22

Category:User dsb, Category:Lower Sorbian nouns, Category:Lower Sorbian verbs, Category:Lower Sorbian adjectives, Category:dsb:Countries, Category:dsb:All topics, Category:dsb:Places, Category:Lower Sorbian lemmas +14 more

← Official language 13

Cottbus, Werben, Briesen, Kolkwitz, Teichland, Turnow-Preilack, Drachhausen, Drehnow +5 more

← Language of work or name 9

Mozilla Thunderbird, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Rozhlad, Lětopis, Časopis Maćicy Serbskeje, English Wiktionary, Jurij, Bogumił +1 more

Has grammatical case 6

nominative case, genitive case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, locative case

← Language used 5

Germany, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, Sorbs, Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater

← Writing language 5

Arnošt Muka, Albin Moller, Pětr Janaš, Kito Šwjela, Jan Bjedrich Fryco

Has grammatical gender 3

neuter, masculine, feminine

Has grammatical number 3

plural, singular, dual

Instance of 2

natural language, modern language

Country 1

Germany

Indigenous to 1

Brandenburg

Lingua Libre ID 1

Slovakia

Subclass of 1

Sorbian

Topic's main category 1

Category:Lower Sorbian language

Writing system 1

Latin script

← Based on 1

Ponaschemu

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Lower Sorbian language

← Model item 1

Sorbian

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Summary

Lower Sorbian is a natural language^[1]. It is a type of Sorbian^[2].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Lower Sorbian — country (P17): Germany. scriptsource.org. Retrieved 2023-08-21. scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Lower Sorbian — instance of (P31): modern language. iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Lower Sorbian — subclass of (P279): Sorbian. Integrated Authority File. Retrieved 2026-01-26. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Lower Sorbian — writing system (P282): Latin script. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Lower Sorbian — writing system (P282): Lower Sorbian alphabet. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Lower Sorbian — number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 6670. Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Lower Sorbian — native label (P1705): dolnoserbšćina. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Lower Sorbian — native label (P1705): dolnoserbski. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Lower Sorbian — native label (P1705): dolnoserbska rěc. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Lower Sorbian — short name (P1813): ніжнелужыцкая. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Lower Sorbian — UNESCO language status (P1999): 3 definitely endangered. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Lower Sorbian — indigenous to (P2341): Brandenburg. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical case (P2989): nominative case. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical case (P2989): genitive case. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical case (P2989): dative case. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical case (P2989): accusative case. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical case (P2989): instrumental case. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical case (P2989): locative case. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Lower Sorbian — Ethnologue language status (P3823): 8a Moribund. Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-05-10. ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical gender (P5109): masculine. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical gender (P5109): feminine. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical gender (P5109): neuter. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical number (P13986): singular. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical number (P13986): dual. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Lower Sorbian — has grammatical number (P13986): plural. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Lower Sorbian is an instance of natural language (Q33742) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Indigenous to → Brandenburg

Coordinate location → {'lat': 51.75, 'lon': 14.5}

Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+6670'}

Topic's main category → Category:Lower Sorbian language

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