Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren

[Elena Gapova]

Ousting of the language is one thing (and a very big and complex one); "ban"
is a legal act; the student mentioned wrote "The Ukrainian language was
banned during the Soviet period".
I am sorry if this is not worth everyone's time.
e.g.

----- Original Message -----
From: Andriy Danylenko <danylenko at JUNO.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 5 March 2004 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren


> 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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