Editing Polabian language (section)

==History==
About 2800 Polabian words are known;{{sfn|Polański|2010|pp=24}} of prose writings, only a few prayers, one wedding song and a few folktales survive. Immediately before the language became extinct, several people started to collect phrases and compile wordlists, and were engaged with folklore of the [[Polabian Slavs]], but only one of them appears to have been a native speaker of Polabian (himself leaving only 13 pages of linguistically relevant material from a 310-page manuscript).{{sfnp|Kapović|2008|p=109}} The last native speaker of Polabian, a woman, died in 1756, and the last person who spoke limited Polabian died in 1825.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

The most important monument of the language is the so-called ''Vocabularium Venedicum'' (1679–1719) by {{ill|Christian Hennig von Jessen|de}}.

The language left many traces to this day in toponymy; for example, [[Wustrow, Lower Saxony|Wustrow]] (literally 'island', Polabian: {{lang|pox|Våstrüv}}), [[Lüchow]] (Polabian: {{lang|pox|Ljauchüw}}), [[Sagard]], [[Gartow]], [[Krakow am See|Krakow]] etc. It is also a likely origin of the name [[wikt:Berlin|Berlin]], from the Polabian stem {{lang|pox|berl-}}/{{lang|pox|birl-}} ('swamp').

Though unorganized [[language revitalization]] for the Polabian language is occurring in small groups. As of 2023, the language has few limited speakers, but is growing due to more resources being accessible to learn the language.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}