Languages

Belarusian Language

Govorun Translation Agency is providing its customers with correct and accurate translations from Belarusian (Byelorussian) and to Belarusian (Byelorussian).
All translators have been carefully selected by our staff recruitment personnel and are ready to perform to the highest professional standards.
We work exclusively with mother tongue linguists who translate into their native language, which effectively minimizes any possible inaccuracies.
We support the following areas of expertise: Advertising & PR, Technology & Engineering, Law & Litigation Support, Banking & Finance, Medical & Health, Automotive & Aerospace, Food & Agriculture, Extractive Industries, Personal Documents and other.

SOME FACTS ABOUT BELARUSIAN

BELARUSIAN: a language of Belarus
SIL code: RUW
ISO 639-1: be
ISO 639-2: bel

Population 7,905,000 in Belarus, 98% of the population (1993 Johnstone). Population total all countries 10,200,000. 74% of the ethnic group from the former USSR speak it as mother tongue.

Region Also spoken in Azerbaijan, Canada, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia (Europe), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan.
Alternate names BELARUSIAN, BELORUSSIAN, BIELORUSSIAN, WHITE RUSSIAN, WHITE RUTHENIAN, BYELORUSSIAN
Dialects NORTHEAST BELARUSAN (POLOTS, VITEB-MOGILEV), SOUTHWEST BELARUSAN (GRODNEN-BARANOVICH, SLUTSKO-MOZYR, SLUTSKA-MAZYRSKI), CENTRAL BELARUSIAN.
Classification Indo-European, Slavic, East.
Comments Linguistically between Russian and Ukrainian, with transitional dialects to both. National language. Cyrillic script used. Christian, Muslim (Tatar). Bible 1973.

Also spoken in:
Poland Language name BELARUSAN
Population 230,000 in Poland (1993 Johnstone).
Alternate names BYELORUSSIAN, WHITE RUSSIAN
Comments Cyrillic alphabet. Bible 1973.