Countries
Belarus, Poland
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Belarus, Gambia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Poland
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Russian and Ukrainian
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Belarusian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
dobry dzień
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Dziakuj
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Dabranač
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Kali laska
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Vybačajcie
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
da pabačennia
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million
  
26
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
  
Russki
  
French Name
biélorusse
  
russe
  
German Name
Weißrussisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Belarusians
  
Russians
  
Origin
18th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Belarusian
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
be
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bel
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
bel
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
bel
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bela1254
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Belarusian and Russian 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 Belarusian and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Belarusian and Russian language. Belarusian word for "Hello" is dobry dzień or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Belarusian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Belarusian vs Russian Difficulty
The Belarusian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Belarusian Alphabets and Russian 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 Belarusian and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Belarusian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Belarusian is Not Available while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.