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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 grammar of the Belarusian language is mostly synthetic and partly analytic, and norms of the modern language were adopted in 1959. Belarusian orthography is mainly based on the Belarusian folk dialects of the Minsk-Vilnius region, such as they were at the beginning of the 20th century.
Before Belarus gained independence in 1991, the language was known in English as Byelorussian or Belorussian, ... A historical phonology of the Belorussian language ...
When a consonant is not palatalized and precedes /j/, the apostrophe ' is used to separate the iotated vowel: п'я п'е п'і п'ё п'ю /pja pjɛ pi pjɔ pju/. ( і is the palatalizing version of ы , and arguably, they represent a single phoneme).
The Phonology of Belarusian-Russian mixed speech is closer to Belarusian. From the point of view of the Russian speaker, the following distinctions are noticeable: presence of palatal affricate consonants [dz̪ʲ] , [ts̪ʲ] instead of [dʲ] , [tʲ] , i.e. [ˈdz̪ʲenʲ] – дзень "day" – instead of [ˈdʲenʲ] день , [ˈts̪ʲixʲɪ ...
The official languages of Belarus are Belarusian and Russian. The three most widespread linguistic codes in Belarus are Belarusian , Russian and the so-called Trasianka , a mixed speech in which Belarusian and Russian elements and structures alternate arbitrarily.
From the 1920s to 1939, after the partition of Belarus (1921), the use of a modified Latin script was reintroduced to Belarusian printing in Western Belarus, chiefly for political reasons. The proposed form of the Belarusian Latin alphabet and some grammar rules were introduced for the first time in the 5th (unofficial) edition of Taraškievič ...
Cf. Padluzhny. Phonology of the Belarusian literary language, Minsk, 1989, and Stsyatsko. Introduction to the linguistics, Hrodna, 2001. Incidentally, and just out of interest, was the person arguing Amir E. Aharoni (aka Amire80)? Yury Tarasievich 16:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)