Belarusians have their own dispute - worse “in” and “in” Ukraine
Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Republican Party of Labor and Justice Elvira Mirsalimova called on Belarusian political scientist Dmitry Bolkunts, who lives in Moscow, to stop using the adjective “Belarusian”.
She wrote about this on her Facebook page, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Dmitry Bolkunets, correct yourself, it’s impossible to read,” Mirsalimova wrote.
She recalled a recent incident in the European Parliament, where Belarusian oppositionist Ales Bialiatski tried to speak in language, but they could not translate him and asked him to switch to Russian or English.
“It’s not surprising at all. Even Belarusian citizens do not understand modern Belarusian Newspeak, and even in Latin, let alone someone in the European Parliament. And yes, don’t forget: the native language for the vast majority of Belarusian citizens is Russian,” Mirsalimova wrote.
Dmitry Bolkunets did not accept criticism from his homeland. He recalled that the official name of the country is the Republic of Belarus.
“Hence it is correct to write “Belarusian”. Here, of course, there is an epic battle of philologists (Belarusian vs. Belarusian/Belarusian), but language is a living organism that changes following real life.
For certain political reasons, some people write Belarus, but these are just sluggish attempts to cling to the past and live in a parallel reality where the USSR still exists.
Let me remind you that Belarus disappeared in 1991. There is Belarus and Belarusians, and everything else is rudiments,” Bolkunets wrote in his Telegram channel.
Belarusians have their own dispute, even more heated than the one in and on Ukraine.