Polabian language
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| Polabian | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Germany | |
| Language extinction: | 18th century | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Polabian | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sla | |
| ISO 639-3: | pox | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Polabian language, which became extinct in the 18th century, was a group of Slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern Germany: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein. It was one of the Lechitic languages.
The name derives from the name of Polabian tribes, which in turn derives from the name of the Elbe river in Slavic languages: Łaba in Polish and Labe in Czech.
There are known Polabian texts from the Wendland (Lüchow-Dannenberg) in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Lord's Prayer in Polabian is: Aita nos, tâ toi jis wâ nebesai, sjętü wordoj tüji jaimą; tüji rik komaj; tüja wüľa mo są ťüńot kok wâ nebesai tok no zemi; nosę wisedanesnę sťaibę doj nam dâns; a wütâdoj nam nose greche, kok moi wütâdojeme nosim gresnarem; ni bringoj nos wâ warsükongę; toi losoj nos wüt wisokag chaudag. Pritü tüje ją tü ťenądztwü un müc un câst, warchni Büzac, nekąda in nekędisa. Amen.
[edit] References
- Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich, Part 1: ed. Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński & Kazimierz Polański, Wrocław, 1962, from Part 2 on: ed. K. Polański, Wrocław, 1971-
- Kazimierz Polański & Janusz Sehnert: Polabian-English Dictionary. The Hague: Mouton 1967
[edit] See also
Slavic languages | |
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| West Slavic | Czech · Kashubian · Knaanic† · Lower Sorbian · Pannonian Rusyn · Polabian† · Polish · Pomeranian† · Slovak · Slovincian† · Upper Sorbian |
| East Slavic | Belarusian · Old East Slavic† · Old Novgorod dialect† · Russian · Carpathian Rusyn · Ruthenian† · Ukrainian |
| South Slavic | Banat Bulgarian · Bulgarian · Church Slavonic · Macedonian · Old Church Slavonic† · Central South Slavic (Bosnian, Bunjevac, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Šokac) · Slavic (Greece) · Slovenian |
| Other | Proto-Slavic† · Russenorsk† · Slavoserbian† |
| (†) denotes Extinct | |
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