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Oct 28, 2022 · According to a 2019 census, about 60% of the population recognize Belarusian as the country’s native language but just over a quarter use it in everyday life. Although Russian was introduced...
- Amanda Coakley
In Belarus on the whole 70.21% of the population indicated they speak Russian at home, 23.43% indicated Belarusian, 3.13% did not indicate a language, 1.51% indicated Trasianka, 1.47% indicated several languages and the remaining 0.23% indicated another language.
Feb 15, 2024 · And Russian was by far the language most commonly spoken at home. Only 2.4 million people, a quarter of the population, spoke Belarusian at home. The protests in 2020 represent the biggest ...
Jun 12, 2022 · Belarus has historically been a multilingual, multiethnic state, with people speaking Belarusian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish (more common before World War II), and a number of local dialects.
- Olga Loginova
Approximately 95% of Belarusian state operates in the Russian language and the Belarusian language is mostly absent in Belarusian education, state media and government affairs where the main information is provided in Russian.
According to the Belarus Census (2009), 41.5% of the Belarusian population declared Russian as their mother language whereas Belarusian is the mother tongue of 53.2% of the population, and 70.2% declared Russian "the language spoken at home" (the second language-related question of the Census).
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Feb 21, 2020 · How many people speak Belarusian? The Belarusian language is assessed as vulnerable by UNESCO, facing inequality with Russian in many spheres, mainly in official communication and business.
