DLI Belarusian Language Course - General Courses

This Belarusan course contains supplementary material to help the student learn the language. The material is written almost entirely in Belarusan and as such is designed to be reviewed with the assistance of a trained Belarusan language teacher.

It can also be used by advanced students to help improve their level of comprehension and their pronunciation.

Belarusian is an official language of Belarus, along with Russian, and is spoken abroad, chiefly in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Prior to Belarus gaining its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the language was known in English as Byelorussian or Belorussian, transliterating the Russian name, , or alternatively as White Ruthenian (/ruinin/) or White Russian. Following independence, it also became known as Belarusian .Belarusian is one of the East Slavic languages and shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian are mutually intelligible. Its predecessor stage is known as Old Belarusian (14th to 17th centuries), in turn descended from Old East Slavic (10th to 13th centuries).

Belarusian is spoken in: Belarus

Belarusian has no known alternate names.