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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/.
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.
The medieval Cyrillic alphabet had 43 letters. Later, 15 letters were dropped, the last 4 after the introduction of the first official Belarusian grammar in 1918. Since four new letters were added, there are now 32 letters. The new letters were: The э ((CYRILLIC) EH) appeared in Belarusian texts in about the late-15th century.
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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.
In Belarusian аканне (akanne), both non-softened and softened /o/ and /a/ and other phonemes phonetically merge into in unstressed positions; see Belarusian phonology. In Russian а́канье (akan'ye), (except for Northern dialects), /o/ and /a/ phonetically merge in unstressed positions.
After the election of Alexander Lukashenko as the President of Belarus in the 1994 elections, the positions of Belarusian language in Belarusian education system worsened as the number of first graders who were taught in Belarusian significantly decreased (e.g. in capital Minsk from 58.6% in 1994 to just 4.8% in 1998) and by 2001 most of the ...
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