Upper Sorbian

@article{Howson2017UpperS,  title={Upper Sorbian},  author={Phil J. Howson},  journal={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},  year={2017},  volume={47},  pages={359 - 367},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:232350142}}
Sorbian is a West Slavic language spoken in eastern Germany, in Saxony and Brandenburg near the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic, and is recognized as an endangered language by UNESCO (Moseley 2012). It is commonly referred to as Sorbian in English, but has historically been referred to as both Wendish and Lusatian. The Sorbian speech area used to expand from its northernmost point approximately 50 km south-east of Berlin to its southernmost point approximately 8 km from the borders of… 

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