Narkamauka
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Narkamawka (Belarusian: Наркамаўка, Narkamauka) is derisive name for the reformed (see Belarusian grammar reform (1933)), currently normative Belarusian grammar (and sometimes for the official Belarusian language, too). Evolved from the modern Belarusian narkam (наркам), abbreviated early Soviet name for the Ministry, people's commissariat (народны камісарыят).
Possibly, coined around the end of the 1980s – beginning of the 1990s by the Belarusian political opposition activists.
 |
This language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
