The East Slavic languages and the "split theory"

[Uladzimir Katkouski]

Hi,

In the Soviet times and, of course, in the Russian empire times the
official textbooks all were repeating over and over the same "theory"
about the "triedinstvo" (the tri-unity) of the East Slavic languages:
Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusan. The Soviet scholars claimed that it
was "one" language that "split" very recently, just a couple centuries
ago.

Thankfully, at least in Belarus after 1991 I encounter fewer and fewer
traces of that Soviet "theory". It seems no one mentions it any more.

Now I am wondering what was the opinion of the Western scholars about
this "split theory"? And what do contemporary Slavic linguist in the
West say about this?

Kind regards,
Uladzimir Katkouski
http://www.pravapis.org/
http://blog.rydel.net/



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