10 Facts About Belarusian language

The modern Belarusian language form was defined in 1918, and consists of thirty-two letters.

Belarusian language orthography differs significantly from Russian orthography in some respects, due to the fact that it is a phonetic orthography that closely represents the surface phonology, whereas Russian orthography represents the underlying morphophonology.

An example illustrating the contrast between the treatment of akanje in Russian and Belarusian language orthography is the spelling of the word for “products; food”:.

Pypin, the Belarusian language was spoken in some areas among the minor nobility during the 19th century.

At the beginning of the 1860s, both the Russian and Polish parties in Belarusian language lands had begun to realise that the decisive role in the upcoming conflicts was shifting to the peasantry, overwhelmingly Belarusian language.

The Belarusian language Committee petitioned the administration to allow the book to be printed.

Subsequently, in the Belarusian SSR, Belarusian was decreed to be one of the four official languages .

Schooling in the Belarusian language was obstructed, and printing in Belarusian experienced political oppression.

Decree had been named On Changing and Simplifying Belarusian language Spelling, but the bulk of the changes had been introduced into the grammar.

The creation of the 1994 Constitution declared Belarusian to be the sole official language, though Russian was given the status as "language of inter-ethnic communication".