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The Book of Laughter
and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera

пра гэтыя бачыны па-беларуску

pr`avapis — n. spelling, orthography.
This is a very important word in the history of Belarusian language, the language that enjoys the luxury of three alphabets and has several conflicting spelling systems. Just like with the Greek original, the word's etymology is nice and simple. It means "the right writing" (prava-pis). And that's the name and the motto of our Website.

On a more serious note, pravapis.org is a private Internet project with the objective to put together various resources about our language, to make it a true portal for linguists and philologists interested in the Belarusian language.

This site is permanently undergoing construction and improvements. Please use the feedback form below to send your questions, comments or suggestions. Be assured, any kind of information related to Belarusian language is interesting to us.

Currently our most urgent need is to find more articles and research papers in English. In case you wrote something, or you know somebody who would not mind contributing some material, please, send it to us. We'll be happy to publish it here.

Check out the list of topics for articles that we are seeking.

Don't forget to bookmark us and get back in the near future, because many more updates are coming soon.

^new! You are welcome to link to our site. (In fact, we could probably exchange links if your site features related information that would be interesting to our visitors, for example, another site about Belarusian or other Slavic languages.) You can provide either a simple text link or a mini-button. Here is the code for the minibutton, which you can cut&paste into your HTML code:

<a href="http://www.pravapis.org/news.asp"><img src="http://www.pravapis.org/minipravapis.gif" width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="pravapis.org"><a>

And that's how it will look on your page: