Projektnummer

0055190

Zusammenfassung

Lower Sorbian is a West Slavonic language which has been spoken for about 1400 years in what is now the German Federal State of Brandenburg. Today it is one of the most endangered European minority languages. The aim of the project is to develop a text corpus of native Lower Sorbian based on transcriptions of audio recordings from various sources. Alongside the assessment and selection of pre-existing recordings an important task will be the extensive collection of new original recordings. Here the primary focus will be on dialect speakers of the older generation who often still learne...