Standard Belarusian

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Standard Belarusian is the codified modern form of the Belarusian language used in official communication, education, and literature in Belarus.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf modern language variety
standard language
variety of Belarusian language
basedOn central Belarusian dialects
closelyRelatedTo Russian language
Ukrainian language
codifiedIn Belarusian grammars
Belarusian orthographic rules
coOfficialWith Russian language in Belarus
country Belarus
dominantNorm official orthography codified in the mid-20th century
hasAlternativeNorm Taraškievica (classical Belarusian orthography)
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Church Slavonic
Polish language
Russian language
Yiddish
hasMorphologicalFeature aspectual opposition in verbs
rich case system
three grammatical genders
hasOfficialStatus one of the two official languages of Belarus
hasPhonologicalFeature akannye (vowel reduction) in unstressed syllables
yakannye (fronting of /e/ and /o/ after soft consonants)
hasRegister colloquial register
formal register
hasScriptDirection left-to-right
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
ISO639-1Code be
ISO639-2Code bel
ISO639-3Code bel
languageBranch Slavic languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageSubbranch East Slavic languages
primaryRegion Belarus
regulates official communication in Belarusian
standardizationPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
taughtAt Belarusian universities
schools in Belarus
usedAs language of national identity for Belarusians
usedBy Standard Belarusian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Belarusian government institutions (when using Belarusian)

Belarusian writers
Belarusian-language media outlets
usedIn Belarusian literature
education in Belarus
mass media in Belarusian
state administration (when Belarusian is used)
writingSystem Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet
Latin alphabet (Łacinka, used occasionally)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Belarusians associatedWithLanguageStandard Standard Belarusian
Belarus officialLanguage Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Google Translate availableLanguage Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Slavic languages includeLanguage Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian language
Vitebsk languageOfficial Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Balto-Slavic languages includesLanguage Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian language
Białystok minorityLanguage Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Nicholas hasLanguageOfUse Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian language
East Slavic languages hasPart Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian language
Mahilyow languageUsed Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Hrodna languageUsed Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Podlasie languageUsed Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Standard Belarusian usedBy Standard Belarusian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Belarusian government institutions (when using Belarusian)
Polesia language Standard Belarusian
this entity surface form: Belarusian
Taraškievica (classical Belarusian orthography) describedInWork Standard Belarusian
subject surface form: Taraškievica
this entity surface form: Belarusian grammar for schools