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The Belarusian Latin alphabet or Łacinka (from Belarusian: лацінка, BGN/PCGN: latsinka, IPA: [laˈt͡sʲinka]) for the Latin script in general is the common name for writing Belarusian using Latin script. It is similar to the Sorbian alphabet and incorporates features of the Polish and Czech alphabets. Today, Belarusian most commonly ...
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has 32 letters. See also Belarusian Latin alphabet and Belarusian Arabic alphabet .
- Cyrillic
- subset of Cyrillic (U+0400...U+04FF)
The phonological system of the modern Belarusian language consists of at least 44 phonemes: 5 vowels and 39 consonants. Consonants may also be geminated. There is no absolute agreement on the number of phonemes; rarer or contextually variant sounds are included by some scholars. [citation needed] Many consonants may form pairs that differ only ...
The written culture of Belarus is over 11 centuries old. Many of us correctly associate the Belarusian language with the Cyrillic alphabet. However, many texts, in both Old Belarusian and the modern literary language (1850s onwards) were originally written and published in Latin characters. The existence of these two graphic...
Belarulacinka is a way of writing Belarusian with the Latin alphabet created by Stefan Stanchev from Bulgaria in December 2017. His main aim was to create a Latin alphabet for Belarussian language that does not use so many diacritics. It also includes a few letters from the Cyrillic alphabet. Belarulacinka. Download an alphabet chart for ...
The Belarusian Wikipedia page shows a population of 6.34 million Belarusian speakers in Belarus, 30,000 in Lithuania and about 10,000 in Canada. Based on these figures, the total number of speakers is between 6.79 and 8.25 million.
The Belarusian Latin alphabet or Łacinka (from Belarusian: лацінка or łacinka, BGN/PCGN: Latsinka, IPA: [laˈt͡sʲinka]) for the Latin script in general is the common name for writing Belarusian using Latin script. It is similar to the Sorbian alphabet and incorporates features of the Polish and Czech alphabets. Today, Belarusian most commonly uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
