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One of the more head-scratching charts is titled “The Pig Wends Its Way Through.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Less than half the Wends still speak their archaic language.

From Time Magazine Archive

His family's failing for falling in love has long been a heartache to toothy old Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though the Wends are now dispersed, records of their migration survive in their language, known, naturally enough, as Wendish.

From Time Magazine Archive

From 1316 to 1436 the town was the residence of the princes of the Wends, and from 1556 to 1695 of the dukes of Mecklenburg-G�strow.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various