Upper Sorbian language

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Upper Sorbian (endonym: hornjoserbšćina), occasionally referred to as Wendish (German: Wendisch),^[2] is a minority language spoken by Sorbs, in the historical province of Upper Lusatia, which is today part of Saxony, Germany. It is grouped in the West Slavic language branch, together with Lower Sorbian, Czech, Polish, Silesian, Slovak, and Kashubian. By now the dialect's speaking area mostly shrank to Budyšin and its immediate countryside,^[3] and is spoken by less than 10,000 people.^[4]