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Also known as Sorbs.
European Slavic minority in Germany.

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The Absalom Delaplain League

In December 1854, Pastor John Kilian and the Wends who had called him as their pastor arrived in Galveston, Texas. Three more months would pass before they were able to acquire land, though. After a hard winter in Houston, the group finally received ownership of the Absalom Delaplain League in what is modern-day Lee County on March 20, 1855. Click below to learn more about the Delaplain League and its history. Copies of the map shown are also available for purchase from the Texas Government Land Office.

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The Absalom Delaplain League In December 1854, Pastor John Kilian and the Wends who had called him as their pastor arrived in Galveston, Texas. Three more months would pass before they were able to acquire land, though. After a hard winter in Houston, the group finally received ownership of the Absalom Delaplain League in what is modern-day Lee County on March 20, 1855.

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The Iowa Wendish Heritage Study Group is focused on the Genealogical Research of the Wends who created and lived in the Iowa Community of Wends from 1847 to present. This includes collecting their family histories, photos, and items of historical interest in order to preserve the memories of Wendish culture and continue to celebrate their unique history.

The collection of Iowa Wendish genealogical data began in about 1980. Members are mainly, but not exclusively, the descendents of the Lower-Wendish emigrants from and near the town of Drachhausen in the south-eastern part of Germany.

In 1847, Christian Wilhelm Stempel from Drachhausen (today Federal State Brandenburg in Germany), began a chain migration to the newly formed state of Iowa in the USA. As more people joined him, a community of Wends was formed.

By 1925, over 200 Wendish individuals had immigrated to Ford Madison and later the State Center area of Iowa, living near one another, marrying and raising large families. Over 12,000 descendents of these original Wends have been found living throughout the United States. Please click here to see the list of Wendish emigrants to Iowa.

The chairperson of the Iowa Wends is Cathy Petersen. Please feel free to contact her with questions about the group, obtaining copies of existing family histories, contributing your family data or participating in group activities at paradisesd@cox.net

The group has celebrated their Wendish heritage with several "Wenden Fests". .

The Wendish cook book, with many original Wendish recipes. .

There are other Wendish genealogical societies. .

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The Iowa Wendish Heritage Study Group is focused on the Genealogical Research of the Wends who created and lived in the Iowa Community of Wends from 1847 to present. This includes collecting their family histories, photos, and items of historical interest in order to preserve the memories of Wendish culture and continue to celebrate their unique history.

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Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen erfasst in nahezu 6000 Stichwörtern alle Siedlungen, die seit dem Mittelalter für das Gebiet des heutigen Freistaates Sachsen nachweisbar sind. Als ortsbezogenes Standardwerk der Landesgeschichte bietet es auf dem Stand der derzeitigen wissenschaftlichen Forschung jeweils die grundlegenden historisch-statistischen Angaben zur:

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Das Historische Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen erfasst in nahezu 6000 Stichwörtern alle Siedlungen, die seit dem Mittelalter für das Gebiet des heutigen Freistaates Sachsen nachweisbar sind. Als ortsbezogenes Standardwerk der Landesgeschichte bietet es auf dem Stand der derzeitigen wissenschaftlichen Forschung jeweils die grundlegenden historisch-statistischen Angaben zur:

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Rěčespytny wotrjad Serbskeho instituta prezentuje Wam tu online wužiwajomny Němsko-hornjoserbski słownik, spisany wot Helmuta Jenča, Frida Michałka a Ireny Šěrakoweje, kotryž nasta w mnoholětnym dźěle w Instituće za serbski ludospyt, předchadniku našeho instituta, a wuńdźe 1989/1991 w dwěmaj zwjazkomaj w Ludowym nakładnistwje Domowina.

Słownik wobsahuje 36477 artiklow, w kotrychž podawaja so serbske wotpowědniki za dohromady 66150 němskich słowow.

Tu spřistupnjeny poskitk - NHS-online - njereprezentuje hišće doskónčny staw dźěła, na jeho polěpšenju so hišće dźěła. Hladajo na potrjebu serbskeje rěčneje praksy pak smy so rozsudźili hižo tutón mjezystaw wozjewić.

Kedźbu: Dokelž jedna so wo historiski słownik, njewotpowěduje prawopis w kóždym padźe aktualnej normje, kajkaž podawa so w němskim Dudenje a w hornjoserbskim Prawopisnym słowniku.

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Rěčespytny wotrjad Serbskeho instituta prezentuje Wam tu online wužiwajomny Němsko-hornjoserbski słownik, spisany wot Helmuta Jenča, Frida Michałka a Ireny Šěrakoweje, kotryž nasta w mnoholětnym dźěle w Instituće za serbski ludospyt, předchadniku našeho instituta, a wuńdźe 1989/1991 w dwěmaj zwjazkomaj w Ludowym nakładnistwje Domowina.

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German - Upper Wendish Dictionary (older version)

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German - Upper Wendish Dictionary (older version)

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Manfred Starosta, Erwin Hannusch, Hauke Bartels

Das Deutsch-Niedersorbische Wörterbuch (DNW) bietet umfassende Informationen zum aktiven Gebrauch des Niedersorbischen.

Bereits seit Mitte 2001 wird an der Zweigstelle für niedersorbische Forschungen des Sorbischen Instituts an diesem neuen Wörterbuch gearbeitet, das primär der Sprachförderung dient. Die seit 2015 schrittweise ergänzten Audiodateien zur Illustration der Aussprache stärken diese für das Niedersorbische wichtige Funktion.

Das DNW enthält zurzeit ca. 82000 Stichwortartikel mit mehr als 94000 Bedeutungen und 47000 Beispielsätzen. Es wird ständig verbessert und erweitert. Mit einer Drucklegung des Wörterbuchs ist erst in einigen Jahren zu rechnen. Die an dieser Stelle angebotenen Informationen sind zwar weitgehend zuverlässig, stellen aber noch nicht notwendig die endgültige Fassung der einzelnen Wörterbucheinträge dar.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter der Rubrik " Info".

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Manfred Starosta, Erwin Hannusch, Hauke Bartels Das Deutsch-Niedersorbische Wörterbuch (DNW) bietet umfassende Informationen zum aktiven Gebrauch des Niedersorbischen. Bereits seit Mitte 2001 wird an der Zweigstelle für niedersorbische Forschungen des Sorbischen Instituts an diesem neuen Wörterbuch gearbeitet, das primär der Sprachförderung dient.

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* Serbski Institut: online dictionaries

* Dolonoserbski: Lower Sorbian dictionaries

* Deutsch-Niedersorbisches Wörterbuch: German > Lower Sorbian & Lower Sorbian > German dictionary by Manfred Starosta, Erwin Hannusch, Hauke Bartels

* Dolnoserbske rěcne wobroty a pśisłowa: Lower Sorbian dictionary of proverbs

* Serdis: Upper Sorbian dictionaries

* online search for these dictionaries:

- Serbsko-nĕmski słownik hornjołužiskeje rĕče : Upper Sorbian-German dictionary, by Jurij Kral (1927)

- Serbske rostlinske mjena : Upper Sorbian-German dictionary, by Jan Radyserb-Wjela (1908)

- Łužiski serbski Słownik : Upper Sorbian-German dictionary, by Křesćan Bohuwĕr Pful [Christian Traugott Pfuhl] (1866)

- Hornjoserbsko-čĕski słownik : Upper Sorbian-Czech dictionary, by František Martínek (2005)

- Hornjoserbsko-ruski słownik : Upper Sorbian-Russian dictionary (1974)

* Němsko-serbski a prawopisny słownik: German > Upper Sorbian & Upper Sorbian > German dictionary

* KonText: Upper Sorbian corpus

* Soblex: morphological analysis of a word

* Prawopis: spelling dictionary

* Serbski institut: Upper Sorbian-German dictionary of place names (Upper Lusatia)

* Ortschaftsnamen im angestammten Siedlungsgebiet der Sorben/Wenden im Land Brandenburg: dictionary of Sorbian place names in Brandenburg (2018)

* Dolnoserbski: Lower Sorbian-German dictionary of place names (Lower Lusatia)

* Deutsch-wendisches encyklopädisches Wörterbuch der oberlausitzer Sprache, němsko-serbski wšowědny słownik: dictionary German-Sorbian of Upper Lusatia, by Filip Rězak (1920)

* Serbsko-němski a němsko-serbski Přiručny Słownik: Sorbian-German & German-Sorbian dictionary, by Arnošt Muka (1920)

* Niederlausitz-wendisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch: Lower Sorbian dictionary by Johann Georg Zwahr (1847)

→ Sorbian keyboard to type a text with the special characters of the Sorbian alphabet

* Obersorbisch: Upper Sorbian, by Tadeusz Lewaszkiewicz, in Wieser Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens (2002)

* Niedersorbisch: Lower Sorbian, by Gunter Spieß

* About Sorbian language by Helmut Faska

* Polish, Kashubian and Sorbian by Sven Gustavsson

* Language diversity: linguistic maps, Sorbian from 1000 to the present

* Grundriss des obersorbischen Ausdruckssystems: Upper Sorbian expression system, at phonological level, by Bohumil Vykypěl (2004)

* Grundriss des Ausdruckssystems des geschriebenen Obersorbischen (2006)

* Studien zum obersorbischen Konsonantismus: the consonant system of the Upper Sorbian, by Lechosław Jocz (2015)

* Grammatik der wendischen Sprache: grammar of the Upper Sorbian language, by Franz Schneider (1853)

* Syntax der wendischen Sprache in der Oberlausitz: syntax of the Upper Sorbian language, by Georg Liebsch (1884)

* Laut- und Formenlehre der oberlausitzisch-wendischen Sprache: phonetics and morphology of the Upper Sorbian language, by Christian Traugott Pfuhl (1867)

* books & papers about the Sorbian language: Academia | Wikipedia

The Sorbian is a Slavic language spoken in East Germany, in Lusatia:

- Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbšćina) is spoken in Upper Lusatia, in the state of Saxony. (2/3 of the Sorbian speakers)
- Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) is spoken in Lower Lusatia, in the state of Brandenburg.

Sorbian flag

* MDR: program in Sorbian

* Sorbian traditions (narratives and customs, songs, poetry, tales): records collected by Hubert Pernod, Institut de phonétique, Musée de la parole et du geste (1929)

* Serbska čitanka: anthology of Sorbian literature, by Josef Páta (1920)

* Zběrka dolnoserbskich pěsnjow: Sorbian folksongs, by Mato Kósyk (1893)

* Dolnoserbska Biblija: translation of the Bible into Lower Sorbian (1868)

* Nowy Testament: New Testament translated into Upper Sorbian, by Michał Frenzel (1835)

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Upper Sorbian:

Wšitcy čłowjekojo su wot naroda swobodni a su jenacy po dostojnosći a prawach.
Woni su z rozumom a swědomjom wobdarjeni a maja mjezsobu w duchu bratrowstwa wobchadźeć.

Lower Sorbian:

Wšykne luźe su lichotne roźone a jadnake po dostojnosći a pšawach.
Woni maju rozym a wědobnosć a maju ze sobu w duchu bratšojstwa wobchadaś.

→ First article in different languages

→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Sorbian & other languages

* Sorabicon: Sorbian language, culture et history

* Sorbischen Kulturlexikon (Sorbian cultural dictionary)

* Sorbisches Siedlungsgebiet : carte du territoire sorabe

English

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Lusatia

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Łužica

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Bautzen

Budyšin

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→ Germany: maps & documents

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Sorbian Dictionary Online Translation LEXILOGOS

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Serbski Institut: online dictionaries * Dolonoserbski: Lower Sorbian dictionaries * Deutsch-Niedersorbisches Wörterbuch: German > Lower Sorbian & Lower Sorbian > German dictionary by Manfred Starosta, Erwin Hannusch, Hauke Bartels * Dolnoserbske rěcne wobroty a pśisłowa: Lower Sorbian dictionary of proverbs * Serdis: Upper Sorbian dictionaries * online search for these

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(as originally spoken by the Texas Wends)

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WIKITONGUES: Rejzka speaking Upper Sorbian

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(as originally spoken by the Iowa Wends)

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Šabernak k jatšam - in niederlausitzisch-wendischer Sprache