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The new Polish Cyrillic in independent Belarus

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Date
28/11/2019
Author
Kamusella, Tomasz
Keywords
Belarus
Polish language
Polish Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Politics of script
Roman Catholicism
Hrodna
Religious books
Russian language
Russian Cyrillic
DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature
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Abstract
After the fall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union, the religious life of the Roman Catholic community revived in independent Belarus. The country’s Catholics are concentrated in western Belarus, which prior to World War II was part of Poland. In 1991 in Hrodna (Horadnia, Grodno) Region, the Diocese of Hrodna was established. Slightly over half of the region’s population are Catholics and many identify as ethnic Poles. Following the ban on the official use of Polish in postwar Soviet Belarus, the aforementioned region’s population gained an education in Belarusian and Russian, as channeled through the Cyrillic alphabet. Hence, following the 1991 independence of Belarus, the population’s knowledge of the Latin alphabet was none, or minimal. For the sake of providing the faithful with Polish-language religious material that would be of some practical use, the diocesan authorities decided to publish some Polish-language prayer books, but printed in the Russian-style Cyrillic. This currently widespread use of Cyrillic-based Polish-language publications in Belarus remains unknown outside the country, either in Poland or elsewhere in Europe.
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Kamusella , T 2019 , ' The new Polish Cyrillic in independent Belarus ' , Colloquia Humanistica , vol. 8 , pp. 79-112 . https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2019.006
Publication
Colloquia Humanistica
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2019.006
ISSN
2392-2419
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 PL License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/), which permits redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, provided that the article is properly cited.
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https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/ch/article/view/ch.2019.006
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19031

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