mersiowsky - 8-16-2022 at 10:13 PM
Lětopis Abstract 2022 1: Bartels, Hauke: Learning Sorbian Digitally: Language Resources on the Internet. Ten years of the Language Portal
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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 program for improving their knowledge of the language and thereby reach a high linguistic level enabling them to communicate in everyday life.
Against his background, this article describes the digital linguistic resources which have been created in the last ten years and made accessible on
the Internet, with the intention above all 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.