TY - BOOK ID - 122980859 TI - Gwary białoruskie na Łotwie w rejonie krasławskim. Studium socjolingwistyczne AU - Jankowiak, Mirosław AU - Central and Eastern European Online Library PY - 2009 SN - 8364031791 8389191830 PB - Warsaw [Poland] : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk DB - UniCat KW - Belarusian language KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Dialects KW - Language studies KW - Language and Literature Studies KW - Applied Linguistics KW - Descriptive linguistics KW - Eastern Slavic Languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:122980859 AB - "Belarusian dialects in Latvia, Kraslav region" looks into the sociolinguistic situation of people speaking different varieties of Belarusian in an area that is a sui generis borderland of borderlands, where the Balts (Latvians, Latgalians, Lithuanians) live together with the Slavs (Russians, Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians), and numerous religions (Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Lutheranism and Old Believers) co-exist. All of these factors resulted throughout history in the development of a multilingualism that is much more complex than in other borderlands. The Kraslav region is a place where three languages (Latvian, Russian and Polish) and numerous dialects (Latgalian, Belarusian and Polish of the Northern Borderlands) co-exist and intermingle. ER -