German school-atlasses will carry Sorbian placenames

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Subject: German school-atlasses will carry Sorbian placenames

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German school-atlasses will carry Sorbian placenames


German school-atlasses will carry Sorbian placenames
 
The conference of the german secretaries of the arts
(Kultusministerkonferenz der Länder) agreed on tuesday 1/7/2000 that
the atlasses used in german schools will as well carry sorbian
placenames for places in Germany, where the indigenous slavic minority
lives. The goal of this innovation is "to make pupils in other parts
of Germany aware of the existance of the sorbian minority". The Sorbs
are a west-slavic minority in eastern Germany. About 4.000 Sorbs live
in Saxony and some 20.000 live in Lower-Lusatia (Brandenburg).* The
proposal was originally made by the former chairman of the
"Domowina-Bund Lausitzer Sorben" (founded 1912), Jakob Brankatschk.
 
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Maximilian Hartmuth, Vienna
melange@gmx.at
 
* UNESCO reports of estimates of between 20.000-110.000 speakers of
the 2 Sorbian dialects, Upper- (around Bautzen) and Lower Sorbian
(around Cottbus/Chósebuz), "but the factual number may be approx.
20,000".

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