Lexically - yes, grammatically and morphologically - not so much. Keep in mind that grammar and morphology are less likely to be borrowed from neighboring languages than vocabulary.

Polish occupation had too much influence

ukrainian is a useless language only spoken by bandera nazis

@@dymytryruban4324 Some elements of grammar and morphology of the Belarusian language were forcefully changed to Russian during the 1933 reform.

Ukrainian is the closest to Belarusian (have read some comparisons - up to 70% of words have same common bases), they were formed in Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where a protolanguage of these both was used as a state one.

I wish all Belorussian will do the same, I mean will use belorussian language in everyday life, udaci i priwiet c Polshi

Of course they are. Belarus borders Poland

@@NoName-yw1pt Ukraine and Russia too

​@@NoName-yw1pt Belarus and Ukraine historicaly was in Polish borders.

@@PiotrFilipek Lithuanian too

My last name translates to pear I’m proud to have this ancestry as an American

oh, a Russian

Thanks a lot!!!

As a Pole, I completely agree

in fact, in Ukraine, the letter в is not the same as in Russia. It's something between V and W (or в and ў in belarusian). With different vowels it will be closer to ў or to в but this is only because Ukrainian В is specific

Me as Dutchman, we use the letter W and v as is pronounced how we writen. Only it sounds harder. I try to lurn the east slavic language and theire cyrillic letters. I like it. And theire history.

I agree. It could be great to add in Russian. So Dr. Watson (from Sherlock Holmes) could be "У'атсон" not "Уотсон"(as in books) or "Ватсон" (in films)

​@@censord6960yes indeed. Before vowels в is [ʋ~β̞~w]. Usually [w] before /u/ and /ɔ/, sometimes [β̞] before /a/, /ɛ/, and /ɪ/, sometimes [ʋ] before /ɛ/ and /ɪ/, and always /ʋ/ (could be unpalatalized) before /i/.

Teaching the Belarusian language in school doesn't make anything worse. After having been taught at a young age, the Belarusians can speak either language without any noticeable accent. They just basically master a wider set of sounds than it would be necessary for only the Belarusian or only the Russian language alone. Though some people in comments complained about Dima's pronunciation of the Russian "щ". I believe that the mismatch between spelling and pronunciation is even worse in English. On the other hand, modern people are able to read the original Shakespeare texts because the written English hasn't changed too much since then. And this can work as an advantage.

Thank you!

If you wanna know more about Belarusian language, a can recording a new video about it!

@@friendlydima1111, it'll be great thanks!

Адна памылка. Жадаю міру, а не свету. Гэта як у англійскай world і piece, у беларускай свет і мір, а ў рускай адно слова мир мае 2 значэнні

Differences between Russian and Belarussian is like Türkiye and Azerbajan.Pronounciation and vocabulary are a little bit different.But These are basicaly same language and speakers can understand eachother easily

з вялік днём ;)

Of course, Russian and Belarusian languages ​​are always taught in Belarusian schools, because there are two official languages ​​in Belarus - Russian and Belarusian.

@@friendlydima1111 You have reserved your language very well. If you look at the people in the region of France known as "Little Brittany" you see that they had eventually to re-construct their language. They had to take over French grammar because their grammar was lost. French teachers tried to eradicate the Celtic language of Little Brittany by beating pupils who had been reported for speaking their own language. If you were reported you had to wear a wooden shoe around your neck and you would get a beating by the teacher each and every day until you reported somebody else who would then take over the wooden shoe. A lot of bad things have been said about Russians but other European nations have also often been cruel. Just think of the Basques who are divided between France and Spain. Or Tyrol, a completely German-speaking region that was in part given to Italy after WWI. The Italians even destroyed gravestones for having German inscriptions. All done in their fanatic desire to erase the original language of the conquered region. Politics...

Yes, you're right! It is the same as polish is the same with german.

It looks like there's indeed some influence, albeit a different one. Belarusian Łacinka script is using letter *Ł* for a hard-L sound. For example: "белы" / "bieły" (white), "слабы" / "słaby" (weak), "стол" / "stoł" (table), "маланка" / "małanka" (lightning). The soft-L sound is just the ordinary *L* letter. For example: "столь" / "stol" (ceiling), "лёс" / "los" (destiny). Audio samples for these words can be found in the English wiktionary. Some Belarusian words look identical to Polish words when written using Latin letters, but are just pronounced differently. A few centuries ago written Belarusian used to be much closer to written Polish than it is now.

@@grzegorzbernacki7682 Belorussian and Ukrainian are heavily influenced by Polish but they're just Russian dialects.

@@drini9087 Ukrainian is a different language, like Germans and Dutch. Not sure about Belarusian though

@@HaloFTW117 Belarusian is much closer to Ukrainian. But still different enough to be a separate language.

@@drini9087 You can't say they're "dialects of Russian", that's a heavily political statement. The East Slavic branch that later became Ukrainian and Belarusian diverged from the other East Slavic branch that would become Russian quite long ago. Ukrainian and Belarusian are closer to the old Rus' language, and direct descendants of it. Russian in turn was more heavily influenced by Old Church Slavonic, among other things. So yeah, it would be just false to say that Belarusian and Ukrainian are somehow variations of Russian, that's false from a linguistic perspective.

@@SaturnineXTS thanks for the clarification!

In Belarusian *č = cz = ч* and *ć = ць* are also separate letters. But there are no words with *šć = шць*.

Hey! Tell her instead of the “hello” - приветули-красатули. put the accent on the letter У in each word. These words know only native Russian speakers))

tell her "pryvyranne" or even better "жыве Belarus"))

I did the similar video. check. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJmjrN1j05bRpKM.html

so,, you never heard Croatian I see

​@@hmises3554 are you from Croatia?

some people from belarus have a very strong belarusian accent. therefore, some people from Belarus can immediately be recognized by their accent)))

I usually use ть for ć, сь for ś, and зь for ź (more etymological spelling)

@@mytiamos you'll be using the latter two anyway, the dilemma is only choosing between ть/ць and дь/дзь. That's of course if we're talking Polish Cyrillic or something, because the languages that actually use Cyrillic already have defined orthographies

@@mytiamos Unless I understood you wrong. What I meant was that Ukrainian чь, шь, жь sound like Polish ć, ś, ź - not that they're meant to reflect those letters etymologically. For example "Запоріжжя" sounds exactly like "Zaporiźzia"

@@SaturnineXTS The Belarusian language has its own Latin script too. For example, "дзень" (day) is written as "dzień" and "Запарожжа" is written as "Zaparožža". The Belarusian word "ззяць" (to shine) is written as "źziać". Also the Belarusian "ць/дзь" sounds exactly like the Russian "ть/дь" in this video probably because the author actually has a bit of a Belarusian accent in his Russian speech. You can also find a lot of complaints in comments about his pronunciation of *щ.*

I'll answer this comment in one of my next video. OK ?

Belarusian has much more similarity with ukrainian than with russian

Marunong ka mag russian?

@@marquincerrada5251 hindi pa po eh

When I started to learn Japanese I did not heard differences between Tokio, Osaka, Kansai dialects After a year of learning mostly Tokio ben I heard Kansai ben and reaction was "WAT?? Wat did she said???" Something similar was with Cologne dialect of German, Brazilian Portuguese sounds more similar with Italian than with Portugal Portuguese

The languages separated, because for many centuries the Belarusians and the Russians lived in different countries and often fought against each other. But eventually the Russian Empire spread to 1/6 of the land mass of Earth and in 1772-1795 finally conquered the territory of the modern Belarus too. And then the Russian occupation authorities started to slowly exterminate the Belarusian language, this process still continues even today. The modern Belarusian authorities are de facto Kremlin's subordinates.

Hello! You're welcome

hello! i don't think so. and the same time i hope that belarusian language will alive

Russian is not difficult to learn Belarusian or Ukrainian. I think so.

Hello! Yes for sure

@@friendlydima1111 Hello Dima! How can we make contact with each other in order to arrange a language exchange?

In Russian Ч and ЧЬ is always soft, while in Belarusian is always hard. Polish has also soft Ч too.

sorry i don't know bulgarian

There are also two slightly different variants in Belarusian: "Jon skazaŭ" - "He said" "Jon kazaŭ" - "He was saying"

hello! to be honest i don't know where and how you cad learn Belarusian language. Sorry

Yes, there are differences. The Russian "Катерина" is written and pronounced as "Кацярына" (Kaciaryna) in Belarusian. Unlike Russian, there are no soft T and soft R sounds in Belarusian. So the soft T sound changes to soft TS. And the soft R changes to the hard R. The Russian "Александр" changes to "Аляксандр" (Alaksandr). The Я (YA) sound appears in the syllables preceding stressed syllables.

almost not. They sound very similar.

yes, example: Ivan - Yanka, Yan Konstantin - Kastus' Fedor - Todar, Khvedar Dmitriy - Zmicier Grigoriy/Gregory - Ryhor Michael/ Mihail - Michas' Katerina - Kasya, Kacyaryna Anna - Hanna etc

Hello. Yes we understand each other

@@friendlydima1111 thanks bro, respect both countries love them

maybe if you want to learn Belarusian language try to find different Belarusian movies in Belarusian or read Belarusian books)

I dont know. The Belarusian language differs in pronunciation from Russian.

There's a "Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe 2015" blog post and a chart. According to it, Belarusian is very close to Ukrainian. And both of these languages are placed somewhere roughly in the midway between Polish and Russian. One thousand years is a long time and I'm actually surprised that Czech and Slovak don't differ more.

Правільна "у ле́се" з націскам на першы склад. Паўднёварасейскія дыялекты - палітызаванае пытанне, бо на гэтых сучасных тэрыторыях Расеі калісці пражывалі этнічныя ўкраінцы, але сёння іх амаль цалкам русіфікавалі. Нейкія парэшткі ўкраінскай мовы і асаблівасці вымаўлення там засталіся.

@@SiarheiSiamashka Ну я пример из южнорусского приводил. И на южнорусских территориях украинцы никогда не жили. Не надо людей вводить в заблуждение.

@@alexandermarkov300 Я ж загадзя папярэдзіў, што пытанне палітызаванае і на гэты конт знайсці паразуменне праблематычна 🙂 У вікіпедыі ёсць мапы "File:Ethnic-Ukrainians.jpg" і "File:Historical_borders_of_Belarusians.png". Таксама патрэбна разумець, што этнічныя межы ўвесь час перасоўваліся ў розныя бакі. І на адной і той жа тэрыторыі маглі адначасова пражываць людзі розных нацыянальнасцяў. Кагосьці было больш, кагосьці - менш. Але сёння не мае ніякай розніцы, што было сто гадоў таму. Існуюць міжнародна прызнаныя межы краін і іх трэба паважаць.

Таксама яшчэ можна нагадаць проа заўжды зацвярдзелы гук "Р" і асаблівасці вымаўлення мяккга "З" у некаторых словах (апошняе тычыцца таксама дзекання і цекання).

It’s interesting!

Maybe that's so in this particular video, but it would be incorrect to generalize this statement. The Belarusian language has plenty of words, which are neither Polish nor Russian. A lot of such words are shared with the Ukrainian language though.

@@SiarheiSiamashka Yeah sorry, forgot to add Ukarinian to the party. I am wondering which language was recognised firt, Belarusian or Ukrainian? Do you have any words that can't be find in Polish, Ukrainian or Russian?

@@adriank9 It's hard for me to compile a big list because I don't speak Polish and Ukrainian myself. But maybe *сябар/siabar* (friend), *волат/vołat* (giant) and *крама/krama* (shop) are good examples of unique Belarusian words. There are also many "false friends", which sound the same, but mean something entirely different.

@@SiarheiSiamashka Gotcha. Krama is present in Polish. Kram/Kramy (plural) a small, provisional shop in the form of a booth or a table or bench with goods.

a good question) i l'll answer in one of the next video

About 85%

That's a hypothetical situation, because in practice it's difficult to find a Belarusian, who can't understand Russian. But if such situation somehow arises, then it would be possible to communicate via rephrasing problematic sentences in some other way. There are a lot of synonyms in both languages and it's possible to find some common ground with trial and error approach. BTW, there's also an artificially created Interslavic language. Which constructed its vocabulary by specifically cherry-picking words, which are shared by many Slavic languages. A kind of frankensteiner.

The two languages are very similar (even more than Spanish and Portuguese) so they should be able to understand one another

*English:* "If a Russian speaks only Russian and zero Belarusian language, meets with a Belarusian only speaks Belarusian language and zero Russian, can they communicate with each other? if not, how much percentage do they understand each other? Just curious..." *Russian:* "Если россиянин, разговаривающий только по-русски и ноль по-белорусски, повстречает белоруса, разговаривающего только по-белорусски и ноль по-русски, то смогут ли они общаться друг с другом? Если нет, то на сколько процентов они понимают друг друга? Просто любопытно..." *Belarusian Cyrillic:* "Калі расіянін, які размаўляе толькі па-руску і нуль па-беларуску, сустрэне беларуса, які размаўляе толькі па-беларуску і нуль па-руску, то ці змогуць яны камунікаваць адзін з адным? Калі не, то на колькі працэнтаў яны разумеюць адзін аднаго? Проста цікава..." *Belarusian Łacinka:* "Kali rasijanin, jaki razmaŭlaje tolki pa-rusku i nul pa-biełarusku, sustrenie biełarusa, jaki razmaŭlaje tolki pa-biełarusku i nul pa-rusku, ci zmohuć jany kamunikavać adzin z adnym? Kali nie, to na kolki pracentaŭ jany razumiejuć adzin adnaho? Prosta cikava..." The Belarusian phrase has 38 words, also counting repetitions. At least 9 of them will be likely difficult to understand for the Russians (калі, які, размаўляе, сустрэне, які, размаўляе, ці, калі, цікава). Some of the others mismatch by more than one letter, but should be easy to guess (змогуць, яны, камунікаваць, адзін, колькі). So the lexical difference here is ~24% or possibly more. The Russian language learners may give it a try. Potentially the difference may increase to ~39% or more, because some extra rephrasing/substitutions are also possible in the Belarusian translation, but the Belarusian person in our scenario doesn't speak Russian and has no idea about what is or isn't easy to understand for the other guy: толькі - выключна (exclusively / исключительно) нуль - ніколі (never / никогда) змогуць - здолеюць (will be able to / будут способны) працэнтаў - адсоткаў (percents / процентов)

for turkish*

Спасибо за комментарий, вы пришли к выводу к которому большинство россиян не способны прийти( по крайней мере пока что), я даже удивлён если честно, в хорошем смысле этого слова. Хотя даже в Украине, есть не пробиваемые люди, которые не могут понять что вы, как россиянка, поняла. Поддерживаю слова про беларускую мову. Прям даже противно на душе от осознания того, что близкий и очень красивый язык, может вот так вот просто, несправедливо, исчезнуть навсегда.

Frankly speaking I'm surprised about your position. Seems like not all Russians are brainwashed zombies after all.

В Беларуси нужно провести такой же эксперимент , как на Украине-вообще запретить русский язык и культуру. Только так можно популизировать белорусский язык-других вариантов я не вижу.

In Russian "гроши" means "pennies" or a small insignificant amount of money. But the Belarusian "грошы" means "money" in the usual sense.

чырвона also exists in archaic russian as "червонный" there are many such words which are present in modern ukrainian and belarusian but also in archaic russian

@@OmPrakash-pc1ec Yes, there's more than one example of such words. But in general, it's incorrect to assume that every Belarusian word has an archaic Russian counterpart. Though once again, the Belarusian "грошы" and the Russian "гроши" are both modern words. But the former means a good thing and the latter means a bad thing.

Да, практически вышло из употребления

yes, of course

There's *ь.* But no *ъ,* which is replaced by the apostrophe *'*

Никто так не говорит

@@Manticoruss как? ШЧ в русском не говорят, только Щ

@@helenstark4348 Я так и сказал.

He is also incorrectly pronouncing the Belarusian words "дождж", "дзвесце", "дзе", "свету". Moreover, the Belarusian word "свет" actually means "world", while the correct translation for "peace" is "мір". Yes, he did warn that his Belarusian is not the best. And it wasn't just him being shy or modest, there were indeed many actual errors.

Таму што ў беларускай няма "Щ" як і "ъ"

I agree with you completely!

@@friendlydima1111 Well, I made a little mistake. In "sounds softer than". I forgot the "s". In case you should know your fellow KZfaqr, please don't tell her, because she is an English teacher. Usually I don't make that kind of mistake. Already more than 20 years ago I had an affair with an English teacher who looked a lot like her. She always became very angry when I made mistakes in English. That is how I was eventually able to work for an English helpline for four years , to get a certificate as an translater and to write more than a hundred Wikipedia articles in English. Believe me, I have nothing against Russians. I am chessplayer. I have admired Russian masters, especially the "White Russian" Alexander Aljechin and the Soviet dissident Viktor Korchnoi. I know three chessplayers in my club who are happily married to female Russian chessmasters. One of my nicest colleagues was a German-Russian woman who once invited our whole bunch to her garden. We had a great party and my Polish colleague and I eventually had so much vodka we sang together "Number of the Beast" from Iron Maiden. He had once been leadsinger of a rockband and I had to prove I could sing louder than him. Yeah, next day Sneshana had to deal with complaints from her neighbours but she wasn't angry. Good woman, really. Yeah, and that's what I learned from Sneshana: Everybody can be good friends if only we ignore the neighbours.

somewhere in the middle

@@friendlydima1111 ❤❤❤ from Macedonia, to me all three languages sound completely different from English🙂 I am just having a Slavic sarcasm, do not get me wrong here 🙂, most interesting thing in neighboring Slavic languages is that depending from which area you are..and in this case which other Slavic neighboring area..languages starts intermixing, for example here in Macedonia if you live in the most southern parts neighboring Serbia for example, there are alot of Serbian words used, if you live in the eastern parts neighboring Bulgaria, alot of Bulgarian accent and words are used, same goes with Serbians and Bulgarians living in border regions with Macedonia, they spoke quite a Macedonian words and dialect.. All Slavic countries united..my life's dream and wish, peace

Belarusian is much closer to Ukrainian.

Так, але з-за русіфікацыі Зміцер стаў "Дзмітрыем"