Language code: bel

Technical information about ISO 639 language code bel

The table below provides technical details for the Belarusian language, designated by the bel code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

bel

Name

Official

Belarusian

Native

Беларуская мова

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
North-Eastern BelarusianSouth-Western Belarusian
Related languages
RussianUkrainianRusyn
Key facts
Uses both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, the latter called ŁacinkaThe modern literary standard was first codified in 1918 by Branisłaŭ TaraškievičContains the unique Cyrillic letter «Ў», absent in other East Slavic languagesMany rural speakers exhibit akannye, where unstressed /o/ is pronounced as /a/Estimated mutual intelligibility with Ukrainian exceeds 80%
Sample phrase

Прывітанне, як ты?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-5, Windows 1251, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Belarusian language, identified by the code bel, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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