Countries
Belarus, Poland
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Russian and Ukrainian
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4846
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3938
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
👆🏻
Hello
dobry dzień
Ahoj
Thank You
Dziakuj
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Dabranač
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
Dobré ráno
Please
Kali laska
Prosím
Sorry
Vybačajcie
Pardón!
Bye
da pabačennia
Dovidenia
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
biélorusse
slovaque
German Name
Weißrussisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Slovaks
Origin
18th century
6th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Slovak
Language Position
7927
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
slk
ISO 639 2/B
bel
slo
ISO 639 3
bel
slk
ISO 639 6
bel
slk
Glottocode
bela1254
slov1269
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic