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from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at ru Polabskij yazyk see its history for attribution You may also add the template Translated ru Polabskij yazyk to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation The Polabian language also known as Drevanian Polabian language Drevanian language and Luneburg Wendish language is a West Slavic language that was spoken by the Polabian Slavs German Wenden in present day northeastern Germany around the Elbe It was spoken approximately until the rise to power of Prussia in the mid 18th century when it was superseded by Low German in the areas of Pomore Mecklenburg West Pomerania central Mittelmark part of Branibor Brandenburg and eastern Saxony Anhalt Wittenberg originally part of Bela Serbia as well as in eastern parts of Wendland Lower Saxony and Dravania Schleswig Holstein Ostholstein and Lauenburg Polabian was also relatively long until the 16th century spoken in and around the cities of Bukovec Lubeck Starigard Oldenburg and Trava Hamburg The very poorly attested Slavic dialects of Rugen seemed to have had more in common with Polabian than with Pomeranian varieties In the south it bordered on the Sorbian language area in Lusatia PolabianSluvenstă rec VenstĕThe first page of Vocabularium VenedicumPronunciation slyˈvɛˑn stʲɐ rɛt s Native toGermanyExtinct3 October 1756 death of Emerentz Schultze Revival21st century 5 known L2 speakersLanguage familyIndo European Balto SlavicSlavicWest SlavicLechiticWest LechiticPolabianLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code pox class extiw title iso639 3 pox pox a Linguist ListGlottolog a rel nofollow class external text href https glottolog org resource languoid id pola1255 pola1255 a Linguasphere53 AAA bcGrey Former settlement area of the Polabian Slavs Green Uninhabited forest areas Darker shade just indicates higher elevation By the 18th century Lechitic Polabian was in some respects markedly different from other Slavic languages most notably in having a strong German influence It was close to Pomeranian and Kashubian and is attested only in a handful of manuscripts dictionaries and various writings from the 17th and 18th centuries HistoryAbout 2800 Polabian words are known of prose writings only a few prayers one wedding song and a few folktales survive Immediately before the language became extinct several people started to collect phrases and compile wordlists and were engaged with folklore of the Polabian Slavs but only one of them appears to have been a native speaker of Polabian himself leaving only 13 pages of linguistically relevant material from a 310 page manuscript The last native speaker of Polabian a woman died in 1756 and the last person who spoke limited Polabian died in 1825 citation needed The most important monument of the language is the so called Vocabularium Venedicum 1679 1719 by Christian Hennig The language left many traces to this day in toponymy for example Wustrow literally island Polabian Vastruv Luchow Polabian Ljauchuw Sagard Gartow Krakow etc It is also a likely origin of the name Berlin from the Polabian stem berl birl swamp Though unorganized language revitalization for the Polabian language is occurring in small groups As of 2023 the language has few limited speakers but is growing due to more resources being accessible to learn the language citation needed PhonologyFor Polabian the following segments are reconstructable Vowels Oral non reduced monophthongs i y u e ɛ œ ɔ a ɒ Reduced e ɐ Diphthongs ai ɒi oi au ɒu Nasal a ɔ Consonants Polabian consonant segments Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Post palatal VelarPlosives p pʲ t tʲ kb bʲ d dʲ ɡAffricates t s t sʲd z d zʲFricatives f s ʃ sʲ xʲ xv vʲ z zʲNasals m mʲ n nʲLaterals l lʲTrills r rʲSemi vowel jStress and vowel reduction Polabian had free and mobile stress which means its placement could not be predicted based on the shape of the word and it could shift to other syllables in inflection and derivation much like in Russian Four syllable words with stress on the last syllable had secondary stress on the second one Stress was interconnected with vowel reduction All vowels except e and ɐ were full vowels and could only occur in stressed syllables or in the syllable immediately preceding primary stress unless it was itself preceded by a syllable with secondary stress Thus for example a four syllable word stressed on the third syllable had full vowels in the second and third syllable but if this same word had stress on the last syllable it had full vowels in the second and fourth syllable Reduced vowels were very short so much that the transcribers who mostly spoke Low German sometimes omitted them in places where they could be expected which was probably not caused by the ellipsis of said vowels but rather by their very short duration The full vowels were noticeably long and were often marked as such in the texts The Lord s PrayerThis section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is The Lord s Prayer should be in Low German not High German since it was the former language that was spoken around the Polabians and assimilated them Please help improve this section if you can May 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message The Lord s Prayer in Polabian and related Lechitic languages compared to Upper Sorbian Old Church Slavonic German and English Germanic loanwords which are comparatively rare in the other West Slavic languages are highlighted in bold Drawanopolabian Nosse Wader ta toy giss wa Nebisgay Sjungta woarda Tugi Geima Tia Rik komaj Tia Willia ſchinyot kok wa Nebisgay tok kak no Sime Nossi wissedanneisna Stgeiba doy nam dans un wittedoy nam nosse Ggrech kak moy wittedoyime nossem Gresmarim Ni bringoy nos ka Warſikonye tay loſoay nos wit wissokak Chaudak Amen Eastern Polabian Aita Nos ta toi jis wa nebesai Sjetu wordoj Tuji jaima Tuji Rik komaj Tuja wuľa mo sa tunot kok wa nebesai tok no zemi nose wisedanesne staibe doj nam dans a wutadoj nam nose greche kok moi wutadojeme nosim gresnarem Ni bringoj nos wa Warsukonge toi losoj nos wut wisokag chaudag Amen Kashubian Ojcze nasz jaczi jes w niebie niech sa swiacy Twoje miono niech przindze Twoje krolestwo niech mdze Twoja wolo jakno w niebie tak tez na zemi Chleba najego powszednego doj nom dzyso i odpusce nom naje wine jak i me odpuszcziwome naszim winowajcom A nie dopusce na nas pokuszenio ale nas zbawi ode zlego Amen Polish Ojcze nasz ktorys jest w niebie swiec sie imie Twoje przyjdz krolestwo Twoje badz wola Twoja jako w niebie tak i na ziemi Chleba naszego powszedniego daj nam dzisiaj i odpusc nam nasze winy jako i my odpuszczamy naszym winowajcom i nie wodz nas na pokuszenie ale nas zbaw ode zlego Amen Upper Sorbian Wotce nas kiz sy w njebjesach Swjec so Twoje mjeno Prindz Twoje kralestwo Stan so Twoja wola kaz na njebju tak na zemi Wsedny chleb nas daj nam dzens Wodaj nam nase winy jako my tez wodawamy swojim winikam A njewjedz nas do spytowanja ale wumoz nas wot zleho Amen Old Slavic transliteration Otĭce nasĭ Ize jesi na nebesechŭ Da svetitŭ se ime Tvoje da pridetŭ cesar ĭstvije Tvoje da bǫdetŭ volja Tvoja jako na nebesi i na zeml i Chlebŭ nasĭ nasǫstĭnyi dazdĭ namŭ dĭnĭsĭ i otŭpusti namŭ dlŭgy nase jako i my otŭpustajemŭ dlŭzĭnikomŭ nasimŭ i ne vŭvedi nasŭ vŭ iskusenije nŭ izbavi ny otŭ neprijazni Aminĭ Old High German 8th century Fater unser thu pist in himile uuihi namun dinan qhueme rihhi din uuerde uuillo diin so in himile sosa in erdu Prooth unser emezzihic kip uns hiutu oblaz uns sculdi unsero so uuir oblazem uns sculdikem enti ni unsih firleiti in khorunka uzzer losi unsih fona ubile Amen High German 20th century Vater unser der Du bist im Himmel geheiligt werde Dein Name zu uns komme Dein Reich Dein Wille geschehe wie im Himmel also auch auf Erden Unser tagliches Brot gib uns heute und vergib uns unsere Schuld wie auch wir vergeben unsern Schuldigern und fuhre uns nicht in Versuchung sondern erlose uns von dem Ubel Amen English Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses or debts cf German use of feminine singular Schuld debt guilt as we forgive those who trespass against us or our debtors German Schuldiger e n however refers only to perpetrators of wrongdoing with dative plural of debtors instead being Schuld e ner e n and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil or the Evil One Amen NotesPolabian sluvenstă rec venskă rec sluv onstĕ sluvenstĕ venstĕ literally Slavic language German Polabische Sprache Polabisch Lower Sorbian polobska rec polobscina Polish jezyk polabski Czech polabstina Latin lingua Polabica German Dravano Polabische Sprache Dravanopolabisch Lower Sorbian drjewjanopolobska rec drjewjanopolobscina Polish jezyk drzewiansko polabski Latin lingua Dravaeno Polabica lingua Dravaenopolabica German Drevanische Sprache Drevanisch Lower Sorbian drjewjanska rec drjewjanscina Polish jezyk drzewianski Czech drevjanstina Latin lingua Dravaenica German Luneburgisch Wendische Sprache Luneburgischen WendischenReferencesKapovic 2008 p 109 Slownik nowopolabsko polski britannica com Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc Archived from the original on 9 March 2020 Retrieved 16 February 2023 Lehr Splawinski 1934 p 26 Lehr Splawinski Tadeusz 1922 Szczatki jezyka dawnych slowianskich mieszkancow wyspy Rugii Slavia Occidentalis in Polish II 114 136 Cited after Polanski 1993 p 799 Lehr Splawinski 1929 pp 102 111 Polabian version quoted after TITUS project Praying Together 2013 10 29 at the Wayback MachineBibliographyKapovic Mate 2008 Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku in Serbo Croatian Zagreb Matica hrvatska ISBN 978 953 150 847 6 Lehr Splawinski Tadeusz 1929 Gramatyka polabska in Polish Lwow Lwowska Bibljoteka Slawistyczna Lehr Splawinski Tadeusz 1934 O narzeczach Slowian nadbaltyckich in Polish Torun a href wiki Template Cite book title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Olesch Reinhold 1977 in Serbo Croatian 15 Zagreb archived from the original PDF on 2009 05 06 Polanski Kazimierz Sehnert Janusz 1967 Polabian English Dictionary The Hague Mouton Polanski Kazimierz 1993 Polabian in Bernard Comrie and Greville G Corbett ed The Slavonic languages London amp New York Routledge ISBN 978 0 415 28078 5 2002 PDF Enzyklopadie des Europaischen Ostens in German Klagenfurt archived from the original PDF on 2007 09 27 a href wiki Template Citation title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Slownik etymologiczny jezyka Drzewian polabskich Part 1 ed Tadeusz Lehr Splawinski amp Kazimierz Polanski Wroclaw 1962 from Part 2 on ed K Polanski Wroclaw 1971 See alsoPolabian language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Polabian language repository of Wikisource the free library Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polabian language Wends Polabians tribe House of Griffins, 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