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Orel dialect (the Kursk-Orel “speech”) of the Russian language,which formed the basis of the Russian national language.The same must be said of the Poltava-Kiev dialect ofthe Ukrainian language, which formed the basis of theUkrainian national language. As for the other dialects ofsuch languages, they lose their originality, merge with thoselanguages and disappear in them.Reverse processes also occur, when the single language ofa nationality, which has not yet become a nation owing tothe absence of the necessary economic conditions of development,collapses as a result of the disintegration of the stateof that nationality, and the local dialects, which have notyet had time to be fully uniformized in the single language,revive and give rise to the formation of separate independentlanguages. Possibly, this was the case, for example, with thesingle Mongolian language.July 11, 1950Pravda, August 2, 195042
TO COMRADES D. BELKIN AND S. FURERI have received your letters.Your mistake is that you have confused two differentthings and substituted another subject for that examined inmy reply to Comrade Krasheninnikova.1. In that reply I criticized N. Y. Marr who, dealing withlanguage (spoken) and thought, divorces language fromthought and thus lapses into idealism. Therefore, I referredin my reply to normal human beings possessing the facultyof speech. I maintained, moreover, that with such humanbeings thoughts can arise only on the basis of linguisticmaterial, that bare thoughts unconnected with linguisticmaterial do not exist among people, who possess the facultyof speech.Instead of accepting or rejecting this thesis, you introduceanomalous human beings, people without language, deafmutes,who have no language at their disposal and whosethoughts, of course, cannot arise on the basis of linguistic43
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