Languages of Belarus

Languages of Belarus
Languages of Belarus
Official	Belarusian and Russian
Minority	Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Trasianka
Foreign	English
Signed	Russian Sign Language
Keyboard layout	Belarusian keyboard;

The official languages of Belarus are Belarusian and Russian.

At present, Belarusian and Russian are considered the sole native languages of Belarus.^{[citation needed]}

The three most widespread linguistic codes in Belarus are Belarusian, Russian and the so-called Trasianka, a mixed speech in which Belarusian and Russian elements and structures alternate arbitrarily.^[1]

^ Hentschel, G. (2014) Belarusian and Russian in the Mixed Speech of Belarus. In: Besters-Dilger, J. et al. (eds.): Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity. Berlin/Boston, 93-121.

[Congruence-1] Hentschel, G. (2014) Belarusian and Russian in the Mixed Speech of Belarus. In: Besters-Dilger, J. et al. (eds.): Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity. Berlin/Boston, 93-121.

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