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ISO 639
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Its own name
беларуская
Script
Cyrillic
Direction
Left to right

Belarusian

Belarusian (беларуская) is spoken by 3M people across 3 territories in CLDR, and is official nationally in 1 of them. Belarus holds 83% of its speakers.

1 official territory1 home market

Reach summary

What one translation into Belarusian covers, across every market that speaks it.

Speakers

3M

Belarus 83% · Ukraine 10% · Poland 8%

First and second language speakers, summed across the 3 territories CLDR records. The bar splits them by territory.

Online speakers

2.8M

0%100%

93% of speakers, once each territory's speaker count is scaled by its World Bank internet rate. Territories with no internet figure contribute nothing, so this is a floor.

Concentration

83%

0%100%

One market with a diaspora: Belarus holds 83% of speakers. Take the tone and conventions from there.

Territories

3

1 where it is official nationally, 1 where at least one person in five speaks it. The rest are diaspora and minority populations, which CLDR does record.

Reachable GDP

$2.4T

Combined GDP of every territory where the language appears. It counts whole economies, not the speakers' share, so read it as an upper bound.

Translation rate

1.00×

1.0×1.6×+

Prices at the mainstream per-word rate used across this site's estimators.

Where Belarusian is spoken

Every territory CLDR records, largest speaker count first. Share is of that territory's own population, so the column has no total.

TerritoryShare of that marketSpeakersOnlineStatus
BelarusBY
26%
2.5M2.3Mofficial
UkraineUA
0.9%
296K244.1Kminority or diaspora
PolandPL
0.6%
224.7K199.1Kminority or diaspora

CLDR does record diaspora populations, so a language usually appears in more territories than its home markets, at small shares. Those rows rarely justify a launch on their own, but they are why total reach runs higher than any one country page shows. A dash in the online column means no World Bank internet figure, not zero.

What it takes to ship

The work that is not translation.

Writing system

Cyrillic

Lays out left to right, the same as the source. Platform default fonts cover this script.

Plural categories

4

Every counted message needs up to 4 arms, and the translator needs all of them.

Rate index

1.00×

Prices at the mainstream per-word rate.