Polabian
The
Polabian language was a group of
slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern
Germany -
Mecklenburg,
Brandenburg,
Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of
Lower Saxony and
Schleswig-Holstein. Became extinct in the
18th century. There are known Polabian texts written in
Hanover Wendland (
Luechow-Dannenberg) in
17th and
18th centuries. Polabian was one of the
Lekhitic languages.
The name derives from the name of Polabian slavs, which in its turn derives from name of the Elbe river in Slavic languages: Labe in Czech language and Łaba in Polish language, see Wends.