Countries
Belarus, Poland
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Ukraine
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Russian and Ukrainian
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4833
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3922
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
dobry dzień
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Dziakuj
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Dabranač
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Kali laska
будь ласк
Sorry
Vybačajcie
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
da pabačennia
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Podillian
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Volynian
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Steppe
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
biélorusse
ukrainien
German Name
Weißrussisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Ukrainians
Origin
18th century
1561
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Slavic
Branch
Eastern
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
7926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
bel
ukr
ISO 639 3
bel
ukr
ISO 639 6
bel
ukr
Glottocode
bela1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic