# The Law on the Official Language

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/law-official-language/
- Published: 1924-06-26T18:55:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T01:48:59+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/zakon-uradovaj-movie.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/zakon-o-gosudarstvennom-yazyke.md

> According to rumors, the Ministry of the Interior has prepared a bill that would permit the use of the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian and Lithuanian languages in state institutions. The author doubts that the Sejm will adopt it.

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"Robotnik" reports that the Ministry of the Interior has drawn up a bill on the right to use a non-Polish language in relation to government offices. This bill provides for the rights of the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian and Lithuanian languages in the "eastern territories of Poland" and is supposedly to be introduced in the Sejm soon…

Perhaps it will indeed be introduced in the Sejm, especially if the government receives a full guarantee that the bill will be rejected by the "National majority." It is interesting that in this list of minority languages, German and Jewish are absent…