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.
The Lord's Prayer in Polabian is: ''Aita nos, tâ toi jis wâ nebesai, sjętü wordoj tüji jaimą; tüji rik komaj; tüja wüľa mo są ťüńot kok wâ nebesai tok no zemi; nosę wisedanesnę sťaibę doj nam dâns; a wütâdoj nam nose greche, kok moi wütâdojeme nosim gresnarem; ni bringoj nos wâ warsükongę; toi losoj nos wüt wisokag chaudag. Pritü tüje ją tü ťenądztwü un müc un câst, warchni Büzac, nekąda in nekędisa. Amen.''

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★ Wends