The mutual intelligibility of Slavic languages as a source of support for the revival of the Sorbian language

Abstrakt

This study reports on the results of a listening-task experiment concerning the intelligibility of Czech, Polish and Slovak to students of the Sorbian-language secondary school in Bautzen/Budyšin, Germany. The analysis focuses on the question of whether the knowledge of Sorbian enables the comprehension of other Slavic languages, as Sorbian language activists claim, and to what extent approximately.

Klíčová slova

• Sorbian
• intelligibility
• Slavic languages
• language revival