Belarusian
East Slavic language
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Summary
Belarusian is a language[1]. Belarusian ranks in the top 0.29% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,320 views/month, #16 of 5,611).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Eastern Europe[3]
- Country: Belarus[4], Poland[5], Lithuania[6], Ukraine[7], Canada[8], United States[9], Russia[10], Latvia[11]
- Instance of: modern language[12]
- Follows: Ruthenian[13]
- Subclass of: East Slavic[14]
- Writing system: Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet[15], Latin script[16], Arabic script[17], Belarusian Latin alphabet[18], Belarusian Arabic alphabet[19], Cyrillic script[20]
- Commons category: Belarusian language[21]
- Wikimedia language code: be[22]
- Start time: 1517[23]
- Topic's main category: Category:Belarusian language[24]
- Language regulatory body: Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala Institute of Language and Literature[25], National Academy of Sciences of Belarus[26]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,058,400[27], 7,900,000[28], 7,600,000[29], 5,094,928[30]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[31]
- Replaces: Ruthenian[32]
- Topic has template: Template:Belarusian language[33]
- Native label: беларуская мова[34]
- Short name: белорусский[35], білоруська[36], беларуская[37], belarusca[38], белорусӣ[39], беларусӣ[40], белоруссаг[41]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[42]
- Indigenous to: Belarus[43], Eastern Europe[44]
- Studied by: Belarusian studies[45]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BEL[46]
Why It Matters
Belarusian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Belarusian is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]