Dolnoserbske mjenja | Niedersorbische Namen – serwis internetowy poświęcony dolnołużyckim nazwom własnym: Popularyzacja wiedzy na temat języka mniejszościowego w dwujęzycznym środowisku

Abstract

In 2020, a decision was made at the Sorbian Institute to upgrade the dolnoserbski.de | niedersorbisch.de website with an additional section dedicated to the study of proper names in the Lower Sorbian language. Based on the former studies conducted at the Institute, the new section organises the onomastic material in a highly convenient, hypertextual form. Bearing in mind the multicultural context of the project, the Institute had to address several issues concerning, for example, the functional relationship between the Sorbian and German variants of a proper name, spelling standardisation (e.g. surnames), the lack of compatible word-formation processes, or a multilingual user interface. Additionally, the Institute intends to upgrade the resources of the section with exonyms and other types of onyms. However, due to the geopolitical conditions in Lusatia and the complicated nature of the relationship between the Lower Sorbian language with German and the Upper Sorbian language, this is a highly challenging task. Name research in the Lower Sorbian text corpus is also planned.