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Name: Polabian Alternate Names: Polabisch; Wendisch; Slüvenst'ě Once Spoken in: Germany Code: pox Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: LINGUIST List Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Subgroup: Lechitic; North West Slavic (lech) Brief Description: Spoken by the Slavs of North-Eastern Germany around the Elbe, in the areas of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein. It is attested in only a few documents, all from the 17th and 18th centuries. It was heavily influenced by German, and contained many German loanwords. The last native speaker died in 1756, and the last person who spoke limited Polabian died in 1825.

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed