Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren

[Andriy Danylenko]

Well, as for the student mentioned in this letter, perhaps she was exaggerating, or what is more plausible, she was simply misunderstood.

Yet for those who might be interested in the consistent ousting of the Ukrainian language from the public use, approximately since 1720, and a drastic shrinking of its communicative potential in the 20th c., please refer to George Y. Shevelov's book, "The Ukrainian Language in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. 1900-1941", Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1989.

Getting back to the Belarusian info, and myself as a typical product of the dredominant Russian culture in the left-bank Ukraine, I am inclined to beleive this communicado. Suffice it to mention several publivations by Mechkovskaja on the socio-linguistical situation in this country, published in particular in the Russian Linguistics.

Cheers,
Andriy danylenko
danylenko at juno.com
adanylenko at pace.edu

-- Elena Gapova <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
Well, not exactly. The translation goes

Schoolchildren at schools with Russian as the main language of instruction
were forbidden to fill in their "journals" (where they enter their
assinnments etc) in Belarusian (though I doubt this is what actually
happened).

Last year an American master's student sent me her paper on Ukrainian
culture working from the assertion that in the USSR the Ukrainian language
was banned. She must have relied on similar evidence for her research and
was very uncomfortable when I told her that this is not true.

Elena Gapova


----- Original Message -----
From: Uladzimir Katkouski <uladzik at MAILBOX.HU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 5 March 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren


Hi!

>From today's news:

http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2004/03/20040305142729.asp

* U skolnych dzionnikach zabaranili bielaruskuju movu. Pavodle zahadu
ministerstva adukacyji vucniam rasiejskamounych skolau zabaranili
zapauniac dzionniki pa-bielarusku.

* Ministry of Education of Belarus banned schoolchildren from filling
out their "journal" (dzionnik) in Belarusian language.


Regards,
U.K. aka Rydel
http://blog.rydel.net/




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