The East Slavic languages and the "split theory"

[Lotoshko Yu.R.]

Gospodi, Volodichka
Ty v kakom derme uchilsja
Esli govorit' o trejedinstve to eto tri gruppy slavjanskich jazykov
juznaja,   zapadnaja i vostochnaja.
Gospodi, kak mne nastojebali chajniki.
Belorusskij - eto vostochnaja gruppa jazykov


----- Original Message -----
From: "Uladzimir Katkouski" <uladzik at MAILBOX.HU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] The East Slavic languages and the "split theory"


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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