The
Journal of Byelorussian Studies
Vol. VI, No.
1
SOUNDS AND WORDS: REFLECTIONS ON READING SKARYNA
by H. Rothe
...The
received opinion seems to be that for the holy texts of the Bible
he used an individual version of Church Slavonic with a certain mixture
of Polish and Czech words. In the forewords and postscripts he is said
to have written in his vernacular Byelorussian; but did he really?..
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