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  • About Belarusan

    • Countries of origin

      Belarus

    • Writing systems

      Cyrillic

    • Linguistic genealogy

      Indo-European, Slavic

Pavel speaking Belarusan

Belarusian is spoken by about 3 million people, principally in the Eastern European nation of Belarus, where it is co-official alongside Russian. An Indo-European language of the Slavic family, it is closely related to Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian, and more distantly so to Polish, Slovak, and Czech. A literary language since at least the 1500s ACE, Modern Belarusian was standardized towards the turn of the twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1LJgZOH.