Variant readings in the Barkulabausky collection of texts and Slutsky chronicles

Abstract

Written sources base has widened the history of the Belarusian language by adding such new texts as objects of the study are there. The comparative analysis of two fragments of Barkulabov and Slucki chronicles has been conducted for examination of norms of the ancient Belarusian literary language. Comparative analysis of quantitative and qualitative peculiarities of variant literary norms has been carried out. The conclusion that chronicles accumulate norms of an ancient Belarusian literary language has been made.