Wiktionary:About Upper Sorbian

Upper Sorbian is a West-Slavic language spoken in Germany. This page depicts the current practices regarding Upper Sorbian entries in Wiktionary.

Headword

Some Upper Sorbian parts of speech have their own designated headword-line templates, which should precede the definition:

• Nouns have {{hsb-noun}}, where the gender and animacy of the noun should be provided.
• Proper nouns have {{hsb-proper noun}}, where the gender and animacy of the proper noun should be provided.
• Verbs have {{hsb-verb}}, where the aspect (perfect or imperfect) of the verb should be provided.
• Adjectives and adverbs have {{hsb-adj}} and {{hsb-adv}} respectively, where the comparative and superlative (if present) can be given.

Other parts of speech should use a simple {{head}} template.

Layout

This is the standard layout:

==Upper Sorbian==

===Etymology===
...

===Pronunciation===
* {{hsb-IPA}}
[optional:]
* {{hyph|hsb|hyphenation}}
* {{rhymes|hsb|rhyme, in IPA}}

===Part of speech===
headword line

# definition
# definition
...
[optional:]
{{syn}}

====Conjugation (verbs) or Declension (nouns and adjectives)====
{{csb-decl-...}} or {{csb-conj-...}}

Phonology

Upper Sorbian pronunciation should be given using the template {{hsb-IPA}}.

Etymology

Upper Sorbian words mostly derive from Proto-Slavic (sla-pro), the shared ancestor of among others Polish, Czech and Russian. Proto-Slavic, in turn, is the descendant of Proto-Balto-Slavic (ine-bsl-pro) and Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro). The entries of these words should contain the template {{inh+}}