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as very successful and promising for the language. Lots of books were published in Belarussian language. Moreover, in 1596 the Grammar book of Belarusian language was published. In XVIII-XIX century any use of Belarusian language was forbidden a few times. People could have been killed for spreading or reading Belarusian literature or speaking the language. Nevertheless, Belarusian survived and became a widespread language again. When Belarusian territory became the part of the USSR (The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Belarusian language was rarely used. Russian language has become widely expanded and it still stays the most prevalent language these days. Our ancestors barely saved it but our generation is just too lazy to keep the language alive.

 

Language policy of our country is clear and predominant language in many fields such as Politics, commerce, publications and even the government stays Russian. Today just 5 per cent of Belarusian people speak only on the native language. 60 per cent speak Russian and other 35 per cent can speak either both languages or trasyanka (a special mixture of Belarusian and Russian). This academic year about 2 per cent of first-formers study in Belarusian language. People use Russian language in all public and state organizations. In 1995 Russian became a second official language in Belarus because the government promised equal use of these two languages. However, even the president A.Lukashenka never speaks Belarusian in public. Today the use of Belarusian is considered as a criminal action to liquidate the government. Russian became the language of authorities and Belarusian the one of the opposition. This fact discourage people to use their native language. Moreover, those people who are smart enough will never speak Belarusian either in public or at home. In the article “The Belarusian language today” I found many chronologically organized examples of eradication of Belarusian language. On October 22, 2009 in Barysau two members of “Young Front” organization were beaten during collecting signatures in support of the Belarusian language. That incident is not the only one. A few similar situations took place in Minsk and Baranavichy. Another example happened in Minsk with a businessman from Zhdanovichy market Ales Taustyka. He was fined for speaking with a client in “incomprehensible language”. The “incomprehensible language” was Belarusian. Tax inspection the place where the complaint was forwarded didn’t let Ales to read it. The only explanation he could get was as following: for an inappropriate talking to a client. (???)

 

Linguistic situation in Belarus is very similar to the one in Ukraine. Ukraine is also a post soviet country. After becoming an independent one there were still no boundaries between Russia and Ukraine. Predominant language was Russian. About 80 per cent of population was speaking Russian language. You could hear the Ukrainian language only on radio or official events. At home people were speaking mostly Russian. Also people were used to speak Russian in public and state organizations. Many Ukrainians knew their native language but felt inconvenient using it. A few years ago extremely harsh politics towards Russian began. Almost all Russian sch本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。