Word: wendish
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...such little-known ethnic groups as the Manx (immigrants from the Isle of Man) and the Wends, who migrated to Texas during the 19th century from what is now East Germany. Though the Wends are now dispersed, records of their migration survive in their language, known, naturally enough, as Wendish. The book's separate listing for Macedonians is expected to upset both Greeks and Bulgarians because historically Macedonia was part of both southern Bulgaria and northern Greece, and both nationalities view Macedonians as their own. The scholar who wrote the four-page listing on Macedonians asked to remain anonymous...
Last week the Wends pondered the Wendish words of a voice speaking over the Prague radio: "Wends, listen! Victorious Marshal Stalin, liberator of all Slavs, has also freed the Lusatian Wends...
...representatives have appealed to Marshal Stalin and the Allies to liberate them [the Wends] from the Germans and incorporate them in Czechoslovakia." The committee also exhorted the Wends forthwith to: 1) set up Wend national bodies in all towns and villages; 2) proclaim themselves Wends and Slavs; 3) speak Wendish...
...United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
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