Polabian language
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Polabian language
The Polabian language, which became extinct in the
18th century
, was a group of
Slavic
dialects
spoken in present-day northern
Germany
:
Mecklenburg
,
Brandenburg
,
Saxony-Anhalt
, eastern parts of
Lower Saxony
, and
Schleswig-Holstein
. It was one of the
Lechitic languages
.The name derives from the name of
Polabian
tribes, which in turn derives from the name of the
Elbe
river in
Slavic languages
: Łaba in
Polish
and Labe in
Czech
.There are known Polabian texts from the
Wendland
(
Lüchow-Dannenberg
) in the
17th
and 18th centuries.
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