Countries
Belarus, Poland
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Russia
Second Language
Poland
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Russian and Ukrainian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3921
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Dziakuj
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Dabranač
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Kali laska
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Vybačajcie
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
da pabačennia
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Olonets
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Olonets
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Русский
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Russki
French Name
biélorusse
russe
German Name
Weißrussisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Russians
Origin
18th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Standard Russian
Language Position
797
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
rus
ISO 639 2/B
bel
rus
ISO 639 3
bel
rus
ISO 639 6
bel
rus
Glottocode
bela1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic