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Author: * Barbel Gepid -
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Date: May 11, 2004 - 14:35
There are four main national minorities residing in Germany from early times:
The Sorbs, Frisians, Danes, German Sinti, and Romas.
The Lusatian Sorbs are the descendants of Slavic tribes.
They settled the territory east of the Elbe and Saale rivers in the 6th century in the course of the migration of people that occurred in the early centuries A.D.
The first document in which they are mentioned dates from 631. In the 16th century, under the influence of the Reformation, a written Sorbian language evolved.
The Frisians are the descendants of a Germanic tribe on the North Sea coast (between the Lower Rhine and the Ems River) and have preserved numerous traditions in addition to their own distinct language. A Danish minority lives in the Schleswig region of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, especially around Flensburg.
The number of Sinti and Roma peoples with German citizenship is estimated at 70,000 and have the Romani language.
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Sorbs, Frisians, Danes, German Sinti, and Romas
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