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The new Polish Cyrillic in independent Belarus
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dc.contributor.author | Kamusella, Tomasz | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-29T13:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-29T13:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11-28 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 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 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2392-2419 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 263762421 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 0bc2ed9b-4c55-4f45-99a9-ab309fb48f27 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3484-8352/work/65345555 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85075682347 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000499622600006 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19031 | |
dc.description.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. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Colloquia Humanistica | en |
dc.rights | 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. | en |
dc.subject | Belarus | en |
dc.subject | Polish language | en |
dc.subject | Polish Cyrillic | en |
dc.subject | Cyrillic | en |
dc.subject | Politics of script | en |
dc.subject | Roman Catholicism | en |
dc.subject | Hrodna | en |
dc.subject | Religious books | en |
dc.subject | Russian language | en |
dc.subject | Russian Cyrillic | en |
dc.subject | DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics | en |
dc.subject | PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | DK | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PG | en |
dc.title | The new Polish Cyrillic in independent Belarus | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of History | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute for Transnational & Spatial History | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2019.006 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/ch/article/view/ch.2019.006 | en |
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