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    Quote Originally Posted by Veneda View Post
    - How is it possible that Belarusians don’t speak Belarusian?
    Another comparison: "How is it possible that Lowland Scottish people don't speak Scots?"
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    The situation for Belarusian was similar to that of Ukrainian after the break up of USSR , except for most western regions of Ukraine that was part of Austro-Hungary joining USSR only in late 30s. Ukraine has done a lot to support the Ukrainian language at state level paying a price, while the Belarusian government has done little. The issue of the language not being widely spoken is also politicised, because the opposition knows the issue is a sensitive one. For example , people who speak Russian would state in surveys their native language is Belarusian. That's good that the opposition discusses the issue, but I'd like them to do something about it such as publishin books, poems, poetries , openening classes and private schools rather than just talking about it about awefullness of Lukashenka's regime. Otherwise, it's going to look as the language issue is a political instrument.

    The other thing I've discovered recently is that Poles of Belarus are most Belarusian speaking group of people. Belarusian language was always native language of Belarusian Poles, who learned Polish in schools. Polish ethnic identity was linked to Roman Catholic religion in Belarus. Maybe Catholicism helped to preserve the language among the community.

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    Quote Originally Posted by drgs View Post
    No it isn't
    The two languages are very similar to begin with, and is one of the reasons they speak it
    It's no more similar than Ukrainian to Russian or Slovak to Czech.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    No it's not! What an ignorant statement. They are both Slavic and closely related. Here is a better example:

    It's like Norwegians would speak in Swedish.

    Or an even better example: a Plattdeutsch (Low German) person speaking Standard High German.
    You are an ignorant about a history. Poland was for 123 years under partitions of Russia, Prussia and Austria and we kept our language intact.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    It's like Norwegians would speak in Swedish.
    I think a more 'real' example would be Norwegians speaking Danish. If Norwegians didn't have any nationalist sentiment they would probably be Danes speaking Danish now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Veneda View Post
    You are an ignorant about a history. Poland was for 123 years under partitions of Russia, Prussia and Austria and we kept our language intact.
    it just because all these empires didn't any efforts for mass education. Короч, это не ваша заслуга, это их недоработка. Само собой, это не для оскорбления, это неприятная правда.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simargl View Post
    It's no more similar than Ukrainian to Russian or Slovak to Czech.
    Slovak is similar to Czech, like Belarusian to Ukrainian. Russian language differs more than Belarusian and Ukrainian.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean le bon View Post
    “nothing significant can be expressed” in belarussian.
    You twist meaning of his words. Belarussian language suits only everyday simple talks. You can't discuss any serious matter in simple underdeveloped language. Btw any serious conversion in current Ukraine is held in russian as well. Ukrainian fits only simple talks and short speeches for masses. So he is absolutely right.
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    Belarussians were part of Russian ethnity 100 years ago, untill the bolsheviks in order to make the revolution more international proclaimed new republics. So the Belorussia was decided to be a separate nation (decided from Kremlin). They needed their language. The newly born belarussian language was a get-together of different village dialects with no established norm. (Unlikely, russian as a long-time state language with rich literary tradition had established norms) The linguist invented rules and norms of new language, but it was still artificial. Villages continued to use their dialects, while in towns and cities people were to use russian as the most comprehensible.
    Something similiar took place in Ukraine. And, although russian is not a state language in Ukraine, ukranian language is more developed then belarussian, the ukrainian language is so far from science, that ukrainian nuclear power plants have only russian as working language.

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    why Ukrainians speak Russian? for us (Carpathian Ukrainians not subjected to Sovietization) Ukrainian from Ukraine sounds very Russified in pronouncing and in the very many borrowings from Russian. we Ukrainians in Romania are among the last speakers of (old, real) Ukrainian. Ukrainians from Ukraine speak Ukrainian with a very Russian accent, but they don't notice it. they are just too used to hearing and speaking Russian. I have nothing against it, I am a bit of a russophile myself. but the people around Russians are usually very attracted to Russian stuff (language, music, film...) and in former Soviet republics many non-Russians still maintain by own will a Russian cultural atmosphere (like in Moldova)

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