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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2021.78.39.004

FROM THE HISTORY OF OSSETIC WRITING. G.V. BAEV’S MEMORANDUM OF 1925

Tomelleri, Vittorio S.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2021. IIS 39 (78).
Abstract:
The present article features a hitherto unpublished and unknown memorandum by G.V. Baev,
now kept in his personal archive (Berlin, National Library). In this short text (eight pages), written in
Russian in 1925 and addressed to the executive committee of the North Ossetian autonomous region,
G.V. Baev expresses his negative opinion about the introduction of a Latin-based alphabet in Ossetia
and exposes the cultural and practical reasons of his preference of the Cyrillic script, firstly used, in
the civil typeface, in the Ossetic grammar composed by the academician A.M. Sjögren in 1844. The
edition of the memorandum is based on two almost identical machine-type drafts and has two major
aims: to make this text available to a broader academic audience and, as a consequence, to stimulate
the search of the original text in the archives of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Keywords: G.V. Baev, archival material, Ossetic writing, Cyrillic, Script reform
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