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SORBIAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany

Synonyms:

Lusatian; Sorbian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Sorbian" is a kind of...):

Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A speaker of Sorbian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Sorbian" is a kind of...):

Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)

Holonyms ("Sorbian" is a member of...):

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

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