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Originally at 77%, the number of Lithuanian Belarusians who considered Lithuanian their native language had declined to 52% by the 1999 census, and to 31% by the 2009 census. The Russian language (and, to an extent, the Belarusian language) have filled the gap to replace Lithuanian, with 39% of Lithuanians speaking Russian natively and 26% ...
In the contemporary Lithuanian language the archaic word gudai is again in active use to designate Belarusians. Yet in the XVI century one of the founders of the Lithuanian written language Mikalojus Daukša used this term to refer to the Slavic population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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The article problematizes the notion of Belarusian national identity as arguably “weak”, “unformed”, and “immature”. This common wisdom is based on the fact that the three-phase process of nation building (in Miroslav Hroch’s terms) had not been completed in Belarus throughout the 19th – early 20th centuries, and was eventually interrupted and even rolled back by the Bolsheviks.
- Aleh Dziarnovich
The Belarusian national minority in Lithuania has deep historical, cultural and political relations. Many famous Belarusians lived and created in Lithuania, mostly its capital Vilnius; it was in Vilnius that the first standardized Belarusian language grammar was printed. According to Polish professor Jan Otrębski 's article published in 1931 ...
The East Slavic variety of the language (rus'ka mova, Old Belarusian or West Russian Chancellery language), gradually influenced by Polish, was the language of administration in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from at least Vytautas' reign until the late 17th century when it was replaced by Polish.
Aleh Dziarnovič. Gudas as a Historical Name of Belarusians in the Lithuanian Language: ‘Goths’ or ‘Barbarians’? [in] Belarus and its Neighbors: Historical Perceptions and Political Constructs. International Conference Papers. Editors: Aleś Łahviniec,
According to official statistics, about 35 thousand Belarusians live in Lithuania now. It is about 1.2% of the total population. Belarusians occupy the third place after the Polish and Russian national minorities through the ethnic composition. The largest number of them lives in Vilnius, Klaipeda, Utena and Kaunas regions.
