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ISO 639-3 · belbel
Indo-European family
Belarusian
беларуская мова
Belarusian is a language of the East Slavic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Belarus, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 7.6 m first-language speakers (2009). Wikidata describes it as “East Slavic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
bel- ISO 639-1
be- Glottocode
bela1254- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 53.00, 27.00
- Wikipedia
- 188 language editions
7.6 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
8countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Belarusian · беларуская мова |
|---|---|
| Also called | Belarus language, Belarusan, Belarusan language, Belarusian language, Belarussian |
| L1 speakers | 7,600,000 (2007) |
| All speakers | 7,900,000 (2009) |
| Written in | Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet |
| Official in | Belarus |
| Grammatical cases | 6 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Belarusian
The branches above Belarusian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
