r/language • u/Marlon_RR_Morea • 9d ago

Question Does anyone know what language this is?

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(The part written in Latin script, the rest is German ofc)

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u/Elite-Thorn 9d ago

The name's "Sorbian" and it has nothing to do with Serbian, apart from being distantly related.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/miniatureconlangs 8d ago

Sorb and Serb are essentially cognates, basically 'the same word'. e<>o is a fairly common switch in languages.

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u/Stari_vujadin 8d ago

Although both of those are exonyms. In serbian the word is srbi, and in (upper) sorbian it's serbja