sentences:  The name "Windic" is derived from Wends (), the name for Western Slavs settling in the "Germania Slavica" contact zone.The medieval German term ' referred to the Slovene language; it should not to be confused with ', the historic German term for the Sorbian-speaking population in Lusatia.In the 6th and 7th century the term "Windische" was used by Bavarian settlers to refer to the Slavic population in the East Alpine principality of Carantania, who were called ' in Latin sources after the ancient Adriatic Veneti tribes.