Вітаю!
say it: “vee-TAH-yoo”
Belarusian
in its own words: беларуская
- Speakers
- 5 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Slavic
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russian Federation, Ukraine
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Belarus
Fun fact
Belarusian spelling is largely phonetic: it records, for example, akanye – the pronunciation of unstressed o as a.