On February 21, from 13.00 to 14.00, the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of the NAS (Surganava str., 15, information and exhibition center, room 110) will host a Republican dictation on the Belarusian language, dedicated to the International Mother Language Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders.

The dictation will be broadcast on the Cultura channel of the Belarusian Radio and on the YouTube channel of the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics of the Center for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Researches of the NAS of Belarus (https://www.youtube.com/@yakub-kolas-institute).

On this day, the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics of the NAS of Belarus holds a number of events. On February 21, at 10.00, dialectologists will hold a meeting with students of gymnasium No. 22 in Minsk on the Belarusian Dialects, during which they will talk about the peculiarities of Belarusian folk dialects, demonstrate the film Belarusian Dialects (Bielaruskija gavorki). From 11.00 to 12:30 there will be a presentation – workshop – master class Slavic-language texts in the Arabic script of the Belarusian Tatars.

At 13.00 there will be a seminar How to Win a Scientific Competition: 10 Tips from Experts (Gymnasium No. 22 in Minsk, Gamarnika str., 8). At 14.00, the staff of the Institute of Linguistics will deliver a lecture Statehood of the Belarusian language: History and Modernity to the cadets of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus. There will also be a round table Slavistics. Etymology. Ethnolinguistics (14.25) and a meeting of academic linguists with Belarusian writers (15.00), during which scientists of the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics will talk about the results of scientific research in the field of Belarusian linguistics, organize an exhibition of the Institute's publications.

From February 6 to 26, 2024, the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics of the Center for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Researches of the NAS of Belarus is holding events dedicated to the International Mother Language Day, which is celebrated on February 21.

A number of events have been taking place for almost three weeks. These are lectures, seminars, round tables, presentations, master classes, interactive classes, meetings and educational and entertainment events. All of them are devoted to the problem of preservation, development and popularization of the Belarusian language.