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The Berlin local district Pankow like other regional names ending with -ow was derived from a Slavic name of this region. Still today variants of the Sorbian language are spoken in eastern parts of Germany but Sorbian is not a German dialect. The ending "-w" is not pronounced in Sorbian.

These names are not derived from Old Prussian even though we do find many Sorbian loanwords in Old Prussian likely due to the geographic proximity.

The Berlin local district Pankow like other regional names ending with -ow was derived from a Slavic name of this region. Still today variants of the Sorbian language are spoken in eastern parts of Germany but Sorbian is not a German dialect. The ending "-w" is not pronounced in Sorbian.

These names are not derived from Old Prussian even though we do find many Sorbian loanwords in Old Prussian likely due to the geographic proximity.

The Berlin local district Pankow like other regional names ending with -ow was derived from a Slavic name of this region. Still today variants of the Sorbian language are spoken in eastern parts of Germany but Sorbian is not a German dialect. The ending "-w" is not pronounced in Sorbian.

These names are not derived from the Old Prussian German dialect even though we do find many Sorbian loanwords in Old Prussian likely due to the geographic proximity.

The Berlin local district Pankow like other regional names ending with -ow was derived from a Slavic name of this region. Still today variants of the Sorbian language are spoken in eastern parts of Germany but Sorbian is not a German dialect. The ending "-w" is not pronounced in Sorbian.

These names are not derived from Old Prussian even though we do find many Sorbian loanwords in Old Prussian likely due to the geographic proximity.

The Berlin local district Pankow like other regional names ending with -ow was derived from a Slavic name of this region. Still today variants of the Sorbian language are spoken in eastern parts of Germany but Sorbian is not a German dialect.

These names are not derived from the Old Prussian German dialect even though we do find many Sorbian loanwords in Old Prussian likely due to the geographic proximity.

The Berlin local district Pankow like other regional names ending with -ow was derived from a Slavic name of this region. Still today variants of the Sorbian language are spoken in eastern parts of Germany but Sorbian is not a German dialect. The ending "-w" is not pronounced in Sorbian.

These names are not derived from the Old Prussian German dialect even though we do find many Sorbian loanwords in Old Prussian likely due to the geographic proximity.