Belorussianism

English Alternative forms en belorussianism Etymology From en Belorussian -ism. Pronunciation en /ˌbɛləˈɹʌʃənɪzəm/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-JutishMale-Belorussianism.wav US Noun ~ en linguistics rhetoric An expression or characteristic peculiar to the Belarusian language. en 1987 Moshe Taube; Hugh M. Olmstedt “Povest' o Esfiri”: The Ostroh Bible and Maksim Grek's Translation of the Book of Esther Harvard Ukrainian Studies 1 1/2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41036242 102 fn. 14 KUL 378 is early among Burcev manuscripts (see Appendix, no. A-1). Variation is largely expected to be restricted to phonetic and orthographic Ukrainianisms and Belorussianisms such as […] en 1992 Paul Wexler (linguist) Paul Wexler 1 6 Sociolinguistica https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110245110.42/html 10.1515/9783110245110.42 “Diglossia et schizoglossia perpetua – the fate of the Belorussian language” 46 Belorussian thus constitutes a unique phenomenon among the Slavic literary languages: here is a language in a perpetual state of diglosso-schizoglossia involving three related Slavic languages (and two simultaneously – Polish and Russian). The result ofthese conditions was that the first literary language in the Belorussian lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania shared the scene with a variant of Church Slavic saturated to varying degrees with belorussianisms, while the modern Belorussian literary language, based, to be sure, on native dialects with a varying number of isoglosses extending into Russian territory, with or without a flood of elements from Polish and/or Russian in its spoken and written forms, had to compete with Russian and Polish for written functions. en 1999 https://academic.oup.com/book/10811/chapter/158959801 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184799.003.0003 9780191674365 Oxford University Press Gennady Estraikh de Soviet Yiddish: Language-Planning and Linguistic Development 2.5 In fact, however, almost all neologisms originally came into the literary Soviet Yiddish from Russian rather than Ukrainian or Belorussian. Ukrainian and, especially even less developed (in terms of modern termonology) Belorussian, played a negligible role as donor languages. Thus the Yiddish verb derkenen zikh, a loan translation of the Belorussian spaznatstsa (to meet), is a rare example of modern Belorussianisms (listed in Plavnik and Rubinshtejn 1932 and in Rokhkind and Shkljar 1940). en politics Support for hegemony of Belorussian identity. en w:Nicholas Vakar Belorussia: The Making of a Nation 1956 Harvard University Press 132, 150 As long as Belorussianism had been a movement away from Russia, it was welcome. But as soon as it had become a movement away from Poland, it could not be tolerated. […] the Soviets had been up against men, and not against symbols of Belorussianism. Coordinate terms en Belarus