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- According to the 2019 census, there are 706,992 ethnic Russians in Belarus (Russian: Русские в Белоруссии, romanized : Russkie v Belorussii; Belarusian: Рускія ў Беларусі, romanized : Ruskija w Biełarusi), which accounts for approximately 7.5 percent of the population of Belarus.
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The 2009 census states that 482,200 people speak Russian as a native language, including 419,000 ethnic Russians, and 63,200 from other ethnic groups, for a total of 8.99% of the population. Additionally, 1,854,700 residents of Kyrgyzstan aged 15 and above fluently speak Russian as a second language, 49.6% of the population in that age group.
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).
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.
Apr 25, 2017 · The most widely spoken language in Belarus is Russian, one of the two official languages. Russian was reinstated as an official language after the Belarusian referendum of 1995 during which 88.3% of voters supported an equal legal status for both Russian and Belarusian.
- Amber Pariona
Russian speaking countries. Russian is an official language in Russia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan and is spoken in 19 other countries as monther tongue by a part of the population. The Russian language (native name: русский) has its roots in the Indo-European language family.
Belarusian speaking countries. Belarusian is an East Slavic language that is closely related to Russian and Ukrainian. It is one of the official languages of Belarus, where it is the most widely spoken language with 39% (=3.6 million speakers).
Russians, many of whom migrated to the Belorussian S.S.R. in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, form the second largest ethnic group, accounting for roughly one-tenth of the population. Most of the remainder are Poles and Ukrainians, with much smaller numbers of Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Tatars.
