Upper Sorbian language

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Upper Sorbian hornjoserbsce
Spoken in:	Germany
Region:	Saxony
Total speakers:	40,000
Language family:	Indo-European Slavic West Slavic Sorbian Upper Sorbian
Official status
Official language of:	Germany
Regulated by:	no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`hsb`
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	`hsb`
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Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbšćina) is a minority language of Germany spoken in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, today part of Saxony. A West Slavic language, it strongly resembles Czech.

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Slavic languages
East Slavic	Belarusian \| Old East Slavic † \| Old Novgorod dialect † \| Russian \| Rusyn (Carpathians) \| Ruthenian † \| Ukrainian
West Slavic	Czech \| Kashubian \| Knaanic † \| Lower Sorbian \| Pannonian Rusyn \| Polabian † \| Polish \| Pomeranian † \| Slovak \| Slovincian † \| Upper Sorbian
South Slavic	Banat Bulgarian \| Bulgarian \| Church Slavic \| Macedonian \| Old Church Slavonic † \| Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Bunjevac, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian) \| Slavic (Greece) \| Slovenian
Other	Proto-Slavic † \| Russenorsk † \| Slavoserbian † \| Slovio
	^† Extinct