Language code: be

Technical information about ISO 639 language code be

The table below provides technical details for the Belarusian language, designated by the be code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

be

Name

Official

Belarusian

Native

Беларуская мова

Family
East Slavic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Belarusian belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, more specifically, to the East Slavic subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Belarus and recognized as a minority language in certain areas of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. It is written in the Cyrillic script (Belarusian alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 5.1 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

200K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Belarusian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

be-BY Belarusian (Belarus)

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