State programme for development
of the Ossetian language
I. Constitutional status of the Ossetian language
2. To set up standing committee on the Ossetian
Language attached to the Oblispolcom…
3. To assist in arrangement of the education in
native language for the Ossetian population residing outside of the
Oblast. Where such practice is not
possible, the teaching of Ossetian language and literature shall be considered
as a separate school-subject. In order
to implement the aforementioned measures, the staff of experts on the Ossetian
language and literature shall be considered at the divisions of the public
education of concerned districts and cities of the Georgian SSR.
6. To set up committees on consultations and
exercising the control on the functioning of the state programme for the
development of the Ossetian language attached to the city and district
Ispolcoms of the Councils of People’s Deputies.
III. Teaching of the Ossetian language to the
Ossetian children at pre-school establishments.
1. To shift the educational process at pre-school
establishments in Ossetian language for the children of Ossetian nationality.
7. To conduct step-by-step transition of teaching
in Ossetian language at primary schools of cities and districts for the children
of Ossetian nationality.To hold the public referendum on this issue.
10. To introduce the optional teaching of Ossetian
language at Georgian schools and Georgian language at Ossetian schools from the
fifth grade.
11. To introduce the teaching of the Ossetian
language at all faculties of the pedagogical Institute of the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast (PISO), high schools and vocational establishments of the
Oblast.
12. To introduce the entrants’ interview in
Ossetian language at the Pedagogical Institute of the South Ossetian Autonomous
Oblast for all Ossetian-speaking entrants.
13. To consider the certain preferential terms for
the entrants the PISO, residing in the villages outside of the Oblast.
18. To negotiate the issue with the leadership of the
IV. Radio and television.
1. To control the process of preparation and
organization of broadcasting in the
a) To speed up the process of construction of the
TV center in the Oblast;
(…)
3. To raise the issue before the Committee on
Radio and TV Broadcast of the Georgian SSR on the following:
a) increase of time of
broadcasting in the Ossetian language in the Oblast;
(…)
4. To find the technical capacity to receive the
radio and TV transmission from the South Ossetian autonomous Republic
(…)
(Newspaper
“Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 170, 5 September 1989)