Wiktionary:About 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: Other parts of speech should use a simple head template.
 * 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.

Layout
This is the standard layout: ==Upper Sorbian== '' ===Etymology=== ... '' ===Pronunciation=== *  [optional:] *  *   '' ===Part of speech=== headword line '' ... [optional:] '' ====Conjugation (verbs) or Declension (nouns and adjectives)==== or
 * 1) definition
 * 2) definition

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

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