(documentation BelarusanLanguage EnglishLanguage "The BelarusanLanguage is an EastSlavicLanguage of Belarus. SIL code: RUW. ISO 639-1: be. ISO 639-2: bel. Population: 7,905,000 in Belarus, 98% of the population (1993 Johnstone). Population total all countries: 10,200,000. 74% of the ethnic group from the former USSR speak it as mother tongue. Region: Also spoken in Azerbaijan, Canada, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia (Europe), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan. Alternate names: BELARUSIAN, BELORUSSIAN, BIELORUSSIAN, WHITE RUSSIAN, WHITE RUTHENIAN, BYELORUSSIAN. Dialects: NORTHEAST BELARUSAN (POLOTS, VITEB-MOGILEV), SOUTHWEST BELARUSAN (GRODNEN-BARANOVICH, SLUTSKO-MOZYR, SLUTSKA-MAZYRSKI), CENTRAL BELARUSAN. Comments: Linguistically between Russian and Ukrainian, with transitional dialects to both. National language. Cyrillic script used. Christian, Muslim (Tatar). Bible 1973. Also spoken in: Poland. (Language name: BELARUSAN.) Population: 230,000 in Poland (1993 Johnstone). Alternate names: BYELORUSSIAN, WHITE RUSSIAN. Comments: Cyrillic alphabet. Bible 1973.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
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