Lithuanians smuggled books in the 19th-century to save their language
Rare.us·2020-08-04 02:39
In an effort to keep the Lithuanian language alive, dangerous measures were taken in the late 1860s. Kyngnesiai, also known as Lithuanian book carriers undertook the task of moving books printed in Latin into parts of the Russian Empire. In doing so, the book smugglers directly ignored a ban in an effort to replace the Latin alphabet with the Cyrillic alphabet.
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