Now you live in Australia...
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Sorben |
Mikolaj: Yes, many of us came from Germany.
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Stephen: And yet, you now speak Sorbian.
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Mikolaj: That is my culture. It is a minority there.
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Stephen: If a language dies, a culture dies with it, you think?
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Mikolaj: Not necessarily. A culture can be transplanted to a new language.
The songs, the costumes, the festivals, the food can survive.
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Voice-over
In the early twentieth
century about 150,000 people spoke Sorbian. But now, there are only about
40,000. If you have roots in a culture, this can be an impetus to rescue a language. Or
is it a fruitless mission accompanying the end of life?
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