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Apr 25, 2017 · In total, 29.4% of the population is fluent in Belarusian, and 52.5% can only read and speak it. Some language support groups are attempting to revive literacy in Belarusian. Russian . The most widely spoken language in Belarus is Russian, one of the two official languages.
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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.
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).
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.
Depending on the source, it is estimated that there are currently around 3-8 million speakers worldwide. Origins and development. The Belarusian language has its roots in Old Russian, which developed from Common Slavic in the early Middle Ages.
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. With 116.83 million native speakers, Russian has the highest prevalence in Russia.
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 as a...
