Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Belarus, Poland
National Language
Russia
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Afganistan
Poland
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
dobry dzień
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Dabranač
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Dobraj ranicy
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Kali laska
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Vybačajcie
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
da pabačennia
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
North-East Belarus
Dialect 2
Olonets
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Olonets
South-West Belarus
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Middle Belarus
Native Name
Русский
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Russki
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
russe
biélorusse
German Name
Russisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Russians
Belarusians
Origin
1000 AD
18th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Indo-European Family
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Belarusian
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
russ1263
bela1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Belarusian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Russian and Belarusian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Belarusian language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Belarusian word for "Thank You" is Dziakuj. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Belarusian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Belarusian Difficulty
The Russian vs Belarusian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian Alphabets and Belarusian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Russian and Belarusian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Belarusian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Belarusian time required is 44 weeks.