Will the Belarusian language disappear?

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If you are interested in Belarusian culture, or Russian culture, or if you are learning the Belarusian language, then you have probably wondered - how many people speak Belarusian? Is there a possibility that the Belarusian language will disappear? These are very difficult questions to which I do not have an exact answer. I tried to tell you what I think about this! Enjoy watching!
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@krabstickle 20 дней назад

Jus watched ur vid on the diffs between Russian and Belarusian u made 2 years ago and damn, ur English is way better now. Good job!

@annexbng 26 дней назад

Your videos are very interesting! Very rare do we see videos about Belarus in English - and having followed you for a while your English has improved a lot! Really admire your ambition and motivation to upgrade yourself. Love from Hong Kong 🇭🇰

@JWLastname 28 дней назад

3:57 Please always keep these languages! They have great value and we would be so BORING if we do not respect these interesting differences of culture and intellectual development.

@dizzyDElKnobberChokker 19 дней назад

I like the song "Магутны Боже" I am trying to learn it for a friend I've met online in Belarus!

@Ae-ne5iy 27 дней назад

I will say one thing. The Belarusian National Anthem makes it sound like Belarus’ language will never disappear. One of my favorite National Anthems in the World.

@oneartftw 26 дней назад

It's a shit soviet anthem that doesn't represent Belarus and it's history. It may only represent a colony named "Belorussia" that is ruled by the lukashenko bloody regime and that's also how the fascist ruzzians call it. The real anthem is either "Zhyve Belarus'" or anthem of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

@519djw6 28 дней назад

*Hello Dima! As I'm sure you know, before the breakup of the Soviet Union Belarusian was called (in English) "Byelorussian." This was sometimes confusing for English-speakers, because we were not sure whether this referred to people from Belarus--or "White Russians," who were anti-Communist. What I would like to know is what the origin of "Belarusian" is. I have read many contradictory explanations. For example, I once read in "The National Geographic Magazine" that people in Belarus had a higher proportion of people with blond hair and blue eyes than in Russia itself. Do you have any other explanation for the origin of "Belarus"? Заранее благодарю тебя!*

@friendlydima1111 27 дней назад

Hello! it's a good question. i'll try to answer this question in one of my next videos. Thank you!

@SiarheiSiamashka 27 дней назад

There are indeed many contradictory explanations and there isn't a single "true" version. But I won't spoil since Dima plans to make a video about this 🙂

@TheDavidlloydjones 28 дней назад

Well, English has pretty much vanished, though it's still spoken in Ireland and Wales, with the Scots occasionally making a stab at it. Belarussian could very well end up confined to a few barbershops in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

@SiarheiSiamashka 27 дней назад

English? Was that a typo? Or do you mean some kind of original pure English, which differs from the modern "international" English, contaminated by the foreigners like us?

@mektheblack 25 дней назад

@@SiarheiSiamashka maybe he meant Common Brittonic

@SiarheiSiamashka 15 дней назад

@@mektheblack Maybe. Too bad that the original commenter doesn't feel like responding and clarifying this.

@sidakerblom8633 28 дней назад

Is the Belarusian language still being taught in schools? Thank you!😊

@SiarheiSiamashka 28 дней назад

Yes, it is still being taught. Though the quality of education has eroded and being a Belarusian language teacher isn't an attractive career choice nowadays.

@friendlydima1111 28 дней назад

yes. our teachers teaches belarusian in schools. For example my mother was a teacher of Belarusian language and literature. Now she is retired.

@phubarr 27 дней назад

I always hate to see culture disappear, because it's essential details of the history of human beings and humanity. It's just my personal opinion, but I feel that all of the different cultures of the world are important and should be preserved. I think the differences between the people of the Earth are what makes the world a beautiful place, like each culture/language/beliefs/history is a unique color of the rainbow. It's with courage and an open mind that we can realize that our neighbors that speak languages which we don't understand shouldn't be feared, or viewed as enemies, but seen as beautiful different colors of the rainbow of humanity. I'm an American, and I especially dislike the tension between the East and West. We might have different languages and culture that should remain a local tradition, but we aren't looking to conquer anybody, and we aren't so different when we get to know each other. My Russian girlfriend says, it's not "us" versus "them", it's all just" us". We're all more similar than we are different, but the differences are what make the world colorful and beautiful, and should never disappear. The world would be a very boring place if we all spoke only one language. I look forward to a day when I can visit your part of the planet (which is where my family came from). There's so many differences to enjoy. I have no clue why some people don't see the value in this.

@SiarheiSiamashka 27 дней назад

The "East" and "West" is a gross oversimplification because, for example, Russia and Saudi Arabia or India are completely different. And Belarus is similar to Russia in some ways, but still is significantly different in the other ways. Does your Russian girlfriend oppose the war or dodges this question? I noticed a surprising lack of compassion among many Russians. It's almost as if they see wars as perfectly normal events and treat their soldiers as totally normal salarymen just doing their job and producing glory for their country, not unlike to how butchers procure steaks for their lunches. And this kind of mindset conflicts with the Western European humanism.

@steveshedd7425 28 дней назад

I think the word you are looking for is "extinct." Will the Belarusian language become extinct? Can a person who only speaks Russian understand someone who speaks Belarusian?

@SiarheiSiamashka 28 дней назад

It depends. The Belarusian language has many synonyms, so different words can be used to describe the same thing in many cases. The Russian language has synonyms too. Some of the Belarusian synonyms sound similar to the Russian words, while the others are completely different. So the same Belarusian text can be rephrased to make it either more difficult or more easy to understand for the Russians, while utilizing the perfectly standard Belarusian vocabulary. I may provide some examples if you are interested. Now considering that some Russians tend to boast about how the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages are supposedly "dialects" and how the Russians totally understand everything even without learning, certain annoyed Belarusians and Ukrainians developed a habit to ditch the Russian sounding synonyms. And as a response to this, the hostile Russians started claiming that the Belarusians and Ukrainians conspire to "invent" new words just to spite them, ignoring the fact that these words actually aren't exactly new.

@friendlydima1111 28 дней назад

almost. People who speak only Russian can understand the people who speak Belarusian partly.

@SiarheiSiamashka 28 дней назад

Compare two variants of the Belarusian translation of your comment that roughly convey the same meaning: * Я мяркую, што вы шукаеце слова "extinct". Ці наканавана беларускай мове вымерці? Ці здольна асоба, якая размаўляе толькі па-расейску, зразумець кагосьці, хто размаўляе па-беларуску? * Я думаю, што вы спрабуеце знайсці слова "extinct". Беларускай мове суджана вымерці? Чалавек, які гаворыць толькі па-руску, можа паняць таго, хто гаворыць па-беларуску? The former should be less understandable for the Russians because of the words "меркаваць", "шукаць", "ці", "наканаваны", "мова", "здольны", "асоба", "размаўляць", "зразумець", "кагосьці". The latter only has a single tricky word "мова". Well, I guess the Russians may show up and prove me wrong.

@patriciahkinyua 25 дней назад

I think it's better to use the Russian language more than the belarussian language since over 70% of the population use it as their first language and it's the more internationally recognised language. Question Dima, do Belarussians consider themselves Russian in terms their ancestors?

@SiarheiSiamashka 25 дней назад

You can use the same reasoning to suggest replacing many of the existing smaller European languages with English. If these countries implement policies actively discriminating their own languages and reform their education to make English much more prominent in it, then the results will be visible in a matter of a few decades, after a few generations graduate from schools. As for whether the Belarusians (with a single "s") consider themselves to be Russians, the 2019 census has an answer to this. There are 7.5% self-identified ethnic Russians in Belarus. And there are 3.1% self-identified ethnic Poles in Belarus. The map presented in this video is taken from Wikipedia and mistakenly shows the percentage of ethnic Poles instead of the percentage of the Belarusian language speakers. Too bad that the author of this video hasn't publicly acknowledged this mistake yet.

@SiarheiSiamashka 28 дней назад

What's the source of that map data? According to the official results of the 2019 census, 54% of the Belarusian population consider Belarusian to be their native language. And 26% are speaking it at home. As for the "difficult questions" and "do not have an exact answer", I understand that voicing the answer isn't safe in modern Belarus. The curious ones may look for the Panteleimon Ponomarenko's letter to Stalin titled «О белорусском языке, литературе и писателях» (21 November 1938).

@friendlydima1111 28 дней назад

i found out this information in Wikipedia.

@SiarheiSiamashka 27 дней назад

@@friendlydima1111 Thanks, I found the source of that map at 1:42 in Wikipedia. But it's titled "Доля этнических поляков в населении районов и городов областного подчинения и Минска (условно показаны кружками) по данным переписи населения 2019 г." (the percentage of *ethnic Poles* among the population).