The Sorbian languages are the Slavic speech of the Sorbs of Lusatia in Germany, made up of Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian, which together form the Sorbian subgroup of the West Slavonic group of the Indo-European family. Scholars debate whether the two are separate languages or two major dialects of one language, and each has lesser dialects, six identified for Upper Sorbian and three for Lower Sorbian. Sorbian is closely related to Serbian, there are two distinct written forms, and the Sorbian-speaking population was estimated in 1976 at between 60,000 and 70,000, nearly all of them bilingual in German.
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Sorbs traditionally speak the Sorbian languages, which are closely related to Polish, Czech, and Slovak.
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The Sorbs inhabit the Lusatian region of Germany, which extends from approximately 80 kilometers southeast of Berlin to the Polish border on the east and the border of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic in the south.
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Today nearly all Sorbs are bilingual in Sorbian and German.
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