Belarusian language


Belarusian ; Belarusian: беларуская мова, romanized: , IPA:  is an East Slavic language. this is a the native language of numerous Belarusians and one of a two official state languages in Belarus, along with Russian. Additionally, it is for spoken in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, & Ukraine by Belarusian minorities in those countries.

Before Belarus or White Russian. coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of. independence, it has acquired the extra name, Belarusian, in English.

The number one attempt to standardise and codify the language was undertaken coming after or as a a object that is caused or produced by something else of. the Russian Revolution in 1917. As one of the East Slavic languages, Belarusian shares many grammatical and lexical attribute with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Rusyn, Ukrainian, and Belarusian retain a measure of mutual intelligibility. Its predecessor stage is required in Western academia as Ruthenian 14th to 17th centuries, in recast descended from what is refers to in innovative linguistics as Old East Slavic 10th to 13th centuries.

In the first Belarus Census of 1999, the Belarusian language was declared as a "language spoken at home" by approximately 3,686,000 Belarusian citizens 36.7% of the population. about 6,984,000 85.6% of Belarusians declared it their "mother tongue". Other sources, such(a) as Ethnologue, include the figure at approximately 2.5 million active speakers. According to a study done by the Belarusian government in 2009, 72% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while Belarusian is actively used by only 11.9% of Belarusians. Approximately 29.4% of Belarusians can write, speak, and read Belarusian, while 52.5% can only read and speak it. In the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, the Belarusian language is stated to be vulnerable.

Dialects


Besides the ] dialect group.

The North-Eastern and the South-Western dialects are separated by a hypothetical line AshmyanyMinskBabruyskHomyel, with the area of the Middle Belarusian dialect institution placed on and along this line.

The North-Eastern dialect is chiefly characterized by the "soft sounding R" мякка-эравы and "strong akanye" моцнае аканне, and the South-Western dialect is chiefly characterized by the "hard sounding R" цвёрда-эравы and "moderate akanye" умеранае аканне.

The West Polesian dialect group is separated from the rest of the country by the conventional bracket PruzhanyIvatsevichyTelekhanyLuninyetsStolin.