Languages of Belarus
Belarus. 9,795,000. National or official languages: Belarusan, Russian. Literacy rate: 99%. Immigrant languages: Baltic Romani, Eastern Yiddish (231,000), Erzya (2,600), Latvian (1,000), Lithuanian (10,000), Polish (403,000), Russian (1,130,000), Tatar (12,000), Ukrainian (291,000). The number of individual languages listed for Belarus is 2. Of those, both are living languages.
| Belarusan | [bel]
6,720,000 in Belarus (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 8,618,630. Ethnic population: 9,051,080. Also in Azerbaijan, Canada, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russian Federation (Europe), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan.
Alternate names: Belarusian, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian.
Dialects: Northeast Belarusan (Polots, Viteb-Mogilev), Southwest Belarusan (Grodnen-Baranovich, Slutsko-Mozyr, Slutska-Mazyrski), Central Belarusan. Linguistically between Russian and Ukrainian [ukr], with transitional dialects to both.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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| Rusyn | [rue]
Alternate names: Carpathian, Carpatho-Rusyn, Lemko, Lemkovschina, Ruthenian.
Classification: Indo-European, Slavic, East
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