Belarusan or Belarusian
Andriy Danylenko
danylenko at JUNO.COM
Thu Sep 13 22:23:42 UTC 2007
The form Belarusian seems to be quite acceptable. It corresponds well to Rusian, used according to the Harvard tradition, primarily to refer to the Old Rusian language (Old Russian).
I have been widely using Rusian/Belarusian in many articles published in various English-language journals in Europe and North America. Not a single editor corrected the form BelaRusian.
Andriy Danylenko
-- nataliek at UALBERTA.CA wrote:
Dear Fellow Slavists,
I am resending this message since the first one did not seem to go
through. If I end up sending this message twice, I apologize in
advance.
I need a ruling on correct usage. What is the proper way to form an
adjective from Belarus? (And also the proper way to refer to a person
from that country). I thought it was Belarusan. But a graduate
student who is doing some copy editing for me and is from Belarus
herself corrected it to Belarusian. Which is correct?
Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/
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