The Journal of Byelorussian Studies

Vol. III, No. 2

ANOMALOUS SPELLING IN BYELORUSSIAN 
by P.J. Mayo

A distinctive feature of the Byelorussian language is akannie...

...however, in Byelorussian...spelling is slow to reflect the realities of pronunciation. Despite the fact that the modern orphography, embodying proposals put forward by the Byelorussian Academy of Science, was agreed upon ...[in] 1933, the phonetic situation ... is nevertheless only imperfectly represented...
 
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