October 6, 2023 at 11:00 in the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of the NAS of Belarus (15 Surganava str., first floor, No. 110) a round table will be held Ivan Nosovich: Linguist, Ethnographer and Folklorist (on the 235th anniversary of his birth). The organizers of the round table are the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics, the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of the NAS of Belarus.

Within the framework of the event, it is planned to discuss the current state of research of Ivan Nosovich's scientific heritage, special attention will be paid to the scientist's handwritten materials, which are stored in the archives of Belarus and neighboring countries. The documentary film "Ivan Nosovich" (1991) will be shown at the round table, a scientific commentary on the socio-historical prerequisites for its creation will be presented, the filmmakers will tell about the idea and features of working on it. The program of the round table will end with the screening of the documentary "Ad pradziedaw spakon viakow..." (1997), dedicated to the Belarusian language, its history and current state.

Everyone is invited!

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Ivan Ivanovich Nosovich (October 7, 1788 – August 6, 1877) was a linguist, lexicographer, ethnographer, folklorist, teacher and public figure who extremely fully and comprehensively reflected in his activities the life of the Belarusian people of the XIX century, its spiritual world.

Ivan Nosovich's pedagogical activity took place in various regions of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, where he got acquainted with the idiom of local residents, studied the peculiarities of their speech, collected lexical material and recorded folklore texts. Ivan Nosovich is known as a folklorist and ethnographer, the compiler of folklore collections of Belarusian proverbs and saws, riddles, songs, legends, but language work occupies a primary place in his scientific activity. The researcher created a unique historical dictionary "Alphabetical index of old words extracted from the Acts Relating to the History of Western Russia published in 1853", which was highly appreciated by the special commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main scientific work of Ivan Nosovich is the Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1870), which included more than 30 thousand words recorded by the author in Mogilev, Vitebsk, Minsk and Grodno governorates. During the life of Ivan Nosovich, the Dictionary received a high scientific assessment, the author himself was awarded the Demidov Prize. This is the first major study in the field of Belarusian lexicography, which influenced the formation of East Slavic dictionary activities. The dictionary has not lost its significance today: it is an important source of vocabulary, phraseology and grammar of the Belarusian language of the XIX century, it gives an idea of the pronunciation, word formation and stylistic features of the Belarusian word, as well as about the philosophy and worldview of our people, its spirit and understanding of the world.

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