Yazep (Iosef) Yurevich Losik
(Язэп Лёсік - also: "Yasip Lyosik"; November 6, 1884 - 1940)
Belarusian linguist
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![[ Photograph: Yazip Losik ]](yalosik.jpg)
Photo Credit: Gramatiika Belaruskaye Movii: Phonetika, (1926)
photograph is on dust jacket of reprint of 1991.
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- Uncle to Jakub Kolas (on his mother's side), Yasep Losik was one of the writers of the Nasha Niva period. He wrote a number of books about Belarusian writing and linguistics, including in 1926, when he self-published Gramatiika Belaruskaye Movii: Phonetika in Mensk. (The book presents an interesting summary of the phonology of Taraskevitza Belarusian (rather than narkomovka) and was re-published several times, including in 1995.) He was arrested in 1930 and again in 1938. He died in a Soviet prison in Saratov in 1940.
- Losik was editor of the periodicals, Bielarus, daily of the Belorussian National Committee, Mensk, October 21, 1919 -- July 9, 1920, and Adradzhenie (Renaissance), the organ of the Institute of Belorussian Culture, Mensk, 1922 (the latter appeared for only one issue).
- For those who read Belarusian, an interesting summary of the Yasep Losik's life and work is in the handbook, Belaruskaya Mova: Entziklapediya (1994), page 306.
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