Sorbisch lernen digital: Sprachressourcen im Internet
Learning Sorbian Digitally: Language Resources on the Internet.

Ten years of the Language Portal niedersorbisch.de

Summary/Abstract: Lower Sorbian is a Western Slavonic minority language under great threat. Current attempts to revitalize the language are strained to their limits by continuing falls in the number of speakers; as well as by a lack of well-trained teachers. Hope of maintaining the language therefore rests on a growing number of engaged individuals who are willing to learn; whether as teachers or new learners of the language; by helping them to create their own programme for improving their knowledge of the language and thereby reach a high linguistic level enabling them to communicate in everyday life. Against this background; the article describes the digital linguistic resources which have been created in the last ten years and made accessible on the Internet; above all with the intention of enabling independent language learning; as well as of promoting the active use of Lower Sorbian. To do this; the Lower Sorbian language portal; www.dolnoserbski.de; provides the main resource.

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