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POLABS (Po=on, Laba=Elbe)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLABS (Po=on, Laba=See also:Elbe) , the Slays (q.v.) who dwelt upon the Elbe and eastwards to the See also:Oder. Their See also:chief tribes were the Vagri in See also:Holstein, the Bodrici or Obotritae in See also:Mecklenburg, the Ljutici or Wiltzi in western See also:Pomerania, the Sprevane on the See also:Spree and the Glomaci or Dalemintsi in See also:Saxony. Except the See also:Lithuanians they were the last Europeans to be christianized; their chief See also:sanctuary was at Arcona on the Isle of See also:Rugen. They were converted and conquered by the 12th See also:century and systematically germanized. By the 17th century See also:Slavonic survived Only in a tiny patch in the See also:east of See also:Hanover about Liichow, where a few words were still understood at the beginning of the 19th century. The See also:population of the See also:district still goes by the name of See also:Wends (q.v.). The chief remains of the See also:language are a paternoster, a few phrases and a See also:short vocabulary written down by Pastor Chi. Henning (c. 1700), and the See also:diary of J. Paruns See also:Schultze (d. 1734). These were edited by A.

Hilferding (St See also:

Petersburg, 1856), and a See also:grammar was published there by A. See also:Schleicher (1871). M. Porzezinski and Fr. Lorentz are the chief later authorities. Polabian agrees mostly with See also:Polish and Kasube with its nasalized vowels and highly palatalized consonants. It had, however, See also:long vowels and a See also:free See also:accent. The remains of it are most corrupt, having been written down when the language was full of See also:Low See also:German by See also:people who did not know Slavonic.

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