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Belarusian (endonym: беларуская мова, romanized: bielaruskaja mova, pronounced [bʲɛɫaˈruskaja ˈmɔva]) is an East Slavic language. It is one of the two official languages in Belarus, alongside Russian.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Belarusian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Belarusian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
As an East Slavic language, Belarusian phonology is very similar to both Russian and Ukrainian phonology. The primary differences are: [1] Akannye (Belarusian: аканне) – the merger of unstressed /o/ into /a/. The pronunciation of the merged vowel is a clear open front unrounded vowel [a], including after soft consonants and /j/.
The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has ...
on the one hand [ф] was introduced into the Belarusian language along with foreign words quite long ago and now is used in Belarusian dialects; on the other hand it is difficult to say clearly about one or another pronunciation of sounds in ancient languages, and the current problem in the language is not to pronounce the particular words but ...
The annual circulation of Belarusian language literature also significantly decreased from 1990 to 2020: magazines (from 312 mil to 39.6 mil), books and brochures (from 9.3 mil to 3.1 mil). [22] Apart from Russian, Belarusian and trasianka the languages of national minorities are used in Belarus, but to a much lesser extent.
As in Belarusian, Esperanto Ŭ is pronounced as a non-syllabic , primarily in the diphthongs aŭ, eŭ and rarely oŭ. It is thought that ŭ was created by analogy with the Belarusian letter ў (Cyrillic u with breve ), which was proposed by P.A. Bessonov in 1870. [ 2 ]
It commonly represents the voiceless velar fricative /x/, similar to how some Scottish speakers pronounce the ch in “loch”, but has different pronunciations in different languages. Kha is romanised as kh for Russian, Ukrainian, Mongolian, and Tajik, and as ch for Belarusian and Polish, while being romanised as h for Serbo-Croatian ...