1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Belarus, Poland
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Latvian State Language Center
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
1.9 Similar To
Russian and Ukrainian
Lithuanian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
da pabačennia
Uz redzēšanos
3.11 I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Livonian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Latvia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Middle Latvian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Latvia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
High Latvian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
France, Latvia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
9.63 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.60 million1.75 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
latviešu valoda
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Lettish
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Belarusians
Latvians or Letts
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Latvian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
54-AAB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology