Editing Belarusian language (section)

==== 1959 reform of grammar ====

A discussion on problems in Belarusian orthography and on the further development of the language was held from 1935 to 1941. From 1949 to 1957 this continued, although it was deemed there was a need to amend some unwarranted changes to the 1933 reform. The Orthography Commission, headed by [[Yakub Kolas]], set up the project in about 1951, but it was approved only in 1957, and the normative rules were published in 1959.<ref>The BSSR Council of Ministers approved the project of the Commission on Orthography "On making more precise and on partially changing the acting rules of Belarusian orthography" ({{lang|be|«Аб удакладненні і частковых зменах існуючага беларускага правапісу»}}) on 11 May 1957. The project served as a basis for the normative ''Rules of the Belarusian Orthography and Punctuation'' ({{lang|be|«Правілы беларускай арфаграфіі і пунктуацыі»}}), published in 1959.</ref> These rules had been accepted as normative for the Belarusian language since then, receiving minor practical changes in the 1985 edition.

A project to correct parts of the 1959 rules was conducted from 2006 to 2007.