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===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||
Traditionally Dravenian was written in a Middle Low Saxon or German based orthography. With the beginning of romanticism and panslavism the wish for a Slavic orthography came up. Since then adherents of a panslavic and highly etymological spelling fought against adherents of the traditional spelling. | Traditionally Dravenian was written in a Middle Low Saxon or German based orthography with minor Polish influences. With the beginning of romanticism and panslavism the wish for a Slavic orthography came up. Since then adherents of a panslavic and highly etymological spelling fought against adherents of the traditional spelling. | ||
This dispute wasn't settled until the 1980s, when both groups mediated by group of linguists of Lüneburg and Magdeburg University came to a compromise and agreed on the modern spelling of today, which incorporates some traditionally German spelling conventions while mostly being based on the spelling of other Slavic languages. | This dispute wasn't settled until the 1980s, when both groups mediated by group of linguists of Lüneburg and Magdeburg University came to a compromise and agreed on the modern spelling of today, which incorporates some traditionally German spelling conventions while mostly being based on the spelling of other Slavic languages. | ||