belorussianism

plural belorussianisms

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of Belorussianism.

plural Belorussianisms · alternative belorussianism

1. countablerhetoricuncountablehuman sciencesAn expression or characteristic peculiar to the Belarusian language.

   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 […]

   1987, Moshe Taube, Hugh M. Olmstedt, ““Povest' o Esfiri”: The Ostroh Bible and Maksim Grek's Translation of the Book of Esther”, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, volume 1, number 1/2, page 102 fn. 14

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   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.

   1992, Paul Wexler, ““Diglossia et schizoglossia perpetua – the fate of the Belorussian language””, in Sociolinguistica, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 46

   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).

   1999, Gennady Estraikh, Soviet Yiddish: Language-Planning and Linguistic Development, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, section 2.5

2. countableuncountablegovernmentSupport for hegemony of Belorussian identity.

   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.

   1956, Nicholas Vakar, Belorussia: The Making of a Nation, Harvard University Press, pages 132, 150