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, today part of Saxony, Germany. It is a West Slavic language, along with Lower Sorbian, Czech, Polish, Silesian, Slovak, and Kashubian. It is now spoken by fewer than 10,000 people^[3] mostly in Budyšin and its immediate countryside.^[4]