It was also during this period that handwritten Belarusian texts started to appear in the Latin alphabet ( Lacinka). Due to the domination of the Greek Orthodox Church in the region, the written form of Belarusian was heavily influenced by Church Slavonic, the liturgical language of the Orthodox church.ĭuring the 16th century a Reformation and Counter-Reformation led to the purging of Church Slavonic elements from literary Belarusian. An archaic form of Belarusian known as "Old Belarusian" was the offical language of the Grand Duchy and and was initially written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
The country now known as the Belarus was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the mid 13th century until the end of the 18th century. Recognised as a minority language in the Czechīelarusian is closely related to Russian and Ukrainian, and mutually intelligible with them to some extent. Status: official language in Belarus and parts of Poland.Writing system: Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.Spoken in: Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine,.Language family: Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, Slavic, East Slavic.The Belarusian Wikipedia page shows a population of 6.34 million Belarusian speakers in Belarus, 30,000 in Lithuania and about 10,000 in Canada.īased on these figures, the total number of speakers is between 6.79 and 8.25 million.īelarusian is an official language in Belarus and parts of Poland, and is recognised as a minority language in the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Lithuania. There were 316,000 Belarusian speakers in Russia based on the 2002 census, 55,000 in Ukraine per the 2001 census, and 40,000 in Poland per the 2002 census. However, only 1.15 million (11.9%) used Belarusian at home. Belarusian (Беларуская мова / Bielaruskaja mova)īelarusian is an Eastern Slavonic language spoken mainly in Belarus, and also in Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, the USA and Israel.Īccording to a study carried out by the Belarusian government in 2009, 2.8 million (29.4%) out a population of 9.67 million could write, speak and read Belarusian in Belarus, and 5 million (52.5%) could read and speak it.
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