Lower Sorbian language
| Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Germany |
| Region: | Brandenburg |
| Total speakers: | 14,000 |
| Ranking: | Not in top 100 |
| Genetic classification: | Indo-European Slavic West Sorbian Lower Sorbian |
| Official status | |
| Official language of: | Germany |
| Regulated by: | valign="top" |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | |
| ISO 639-2 | dsb |
| SIL | WEE |
Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbski) is a minority language spoken in eastern Germany in the historical province of Lower Lusatia, today part of Brandenburg.
Orthography
The Lower Sorbian alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet but uses diacritics such as acute accent and hacek. The standard character encoding for the Lower Sorbian alphabet is ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2).
See also: Sorbian alphabet
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