Countries
Belarus, Poland
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Lithuania
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Poland
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Russian and Ukrainian
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4832
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3920
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
Sveiki
Thank You
Dziakuj
Ačiū
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Dabranač
Labanakt
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Laba diena
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
Labas rytas
Please
Kali laska
Prašom
Sorry
Vybačajcie
atsiprašau
Bye
da pabačennia
Ate
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Samogitian
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Curonian
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
biélorusse
lituanien
German Name
Weißrussisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Lithuanians
Origin
18th century
c. 1503
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
-
Branch
Eastern
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Lithuanian
Language Position
7944
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
lit
ISO 639 2/B
bel
lit
ISO 639 3
bel
lit
ISO 639 6
bel
lit
Glottocode
bela1254
lith1251
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic