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Name: Belarusan Type: Language Alternate Names: Belorussian; Bielorussian; Byelorussian; White Russian; White Ruthenian; Belarusian Spoken in: Ukraine, USA, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Estonia, Poland, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Canada, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, Latvia Number of speakers: 6,720,000 in Belarus (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 8,618,630. Ethnic population: 9,051,080 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 4000000 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 9081102 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: bel Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Dialect Group: Old Ruthenian; Ruthenian; Old Kyivan Language; Old Belarusian; Old Belorussian; Old Ukraininan; Simple Ruthenian; Old West Russian; Lithuanian-Russian; Lithuanian-Slavonic; Russian-Polish (orv-olr) Child Dialects: Central Belarusan; Central Belorussian (bel-cen) Southwest Belarusan; Grodnen-Baranovich; Slutsko-Mozyr; Slutska-Mazyrski (bel-sou) Northeast Belarusan; Polots; Viteb-Mogilev; Northeastern Belorussian (bel-nor)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed