On display is a selection of artifacts including ancient jewellery, garments, photographs, religious and private documents and a 13th century paper cardboard textile manuscript from western Belarus called Kitab which has texts of
Belarusian language written in a calligrap-hic Arabic script.
Special attention was paid to the proposal to set up a centre for Arabic language and culture at the Belarusian State University and a centre for
Belarusian language and culture at an educational institution in Oman.
The sources said on basis of MoU and a protocol of mutual cooperation between the Ministries of Education of two countries, an agreement for establishment of Urdu and
Belarusian language chairs (on reciprocal basis) was signed during visit of President of Belarus to Pakistan on October 6, 2016.
Yet the European Union's only media presence in Belarus is through the Polish-funded
Belarusian language television channel Belsat.
There is Francysk Skaryna gymnasium with
Belarusian language instruction in Vilnius.
Public opinion polls show the reported use of
Belarusian language (by 3 percent of respondents) to be almost twenty times lower than the use of Russian (57 percent), while 24 percent use a mixture of two languages and 16 percent use both.
Mort's poetry focuses on keeping the
Belarusian language alive, despite many governmental attempts to absorb it into Russian.
The
Belarusian language is now taught at schools and, as a recent gas dispute with Russia showed, the government chafes when Moscow tries to boss it around.
This book is the slightly updated edition of Shirin Akiner's hitherto unpublished dissertation of 1980 on a manuscript in the
Belarusian language but in Arabic script.
This theory emerged in the context of deficit of
Belarusian language in public space of contemporary Belarus and could be interpreted as a kind of reterritorialization in order to support national feelings (13).
These often untitled and unpunctuated free-verse poems are bracketed by two poems that address the resurfacing of the
Belarusian language. Suppressed in the Soviet era in favor of Russian, Belarusian continues to be marginalized by the political elites.