人权宣言 - Sorbian

总发言人数

按國家使用（官方語言）

Officially Recognized Language: Lusatia (Lausitz) in Germany

背景

It belongs to the Indo-European family, Slavonic group, West Slavonic subgroup and is spoken by 20,000 people in an area known as Luzica (Lusatia), which is within the German federal Länder of Braniborska (Brandenburg) and Sakska (Sachsen/Saxony), though there are more than 100,000 ethnic Sorbs living in Germany. Only a small part of them now speak this language regularly at home and nearly all of them are bilingual in German. Reference is usually made to the two variants, Upper Sorbian, spoken around Budysin (Bautzen) and considered the main variety (very close to Slovak)and Lower Sorbian spoken around Chosebuz (Cottbus). All public use of the Sorbian language and reporting about the Sorbs in the German press was banned by the Nazis in 1937. A law protecting the rights of the Sorbian population was passed in the provincial parliament of Sakska (Saxony) in 1948, and in 1950 the same general principles were adopted in Braniborska (Brandenburg). Since 1994 the Sorbian languages have been adopted as part of the curriculum in the schools of Sakska (Saxony) and Braniborska (Brandenburg) as foreign languages.