The Difference between Russian and Belarusian language

Hey! Do you know the difference between Russian and Belarusian? I'll tell you. If you learning Russian or Belarusian, this video will be usefull for you. I hope this Russian and Belarusian language lesson will help you. Russian and Belarusian languages ​​are very similar, but at the same time very different. They differ primarily in pronunciation and spelling. Watch the video up to the end and you will learn the difference between Russian and Belarusian. Happy viewing!
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#russian #belarussian #language

[@MCKevin289]

I’m studying Ukrainian, but some of the Belarusian I understood. It sounds a lot more like Ukrainian or Polish than Russian.

[@dymytryruban4324]

Lexically - yes, grammatically and morphologically - not so much. Keep in mind that grammar and morphology are less likely to be borrowed from neighboring languages than vocabulary.

[@russian_supremacy]

Polish occupation had too much influence

[@derkonig162]

ukrainian is a useless language only spoken by bandera nazis

[@johnbrzeczyszczykiewicz5972]

Lexically Belarusian is very close to Polish, but sounds so much closer to Russian sound wise. It's like a bridge between the two languages. Knowing Polish and a good amount of Russian makes it incredibly easy for me to understand.

[@stranger1625]

I am Polish and I really like this language, it is said to be the most similar East Slavic language to Polish

[@NoName-yw1pt]

Of course they are. Belarus borders Poland

[@stranger1625]

@@NoName-yw1pt Ukraine and Russia too

[@PiotrFilipek]

​@@NoName-yw1pt Belarus and Ukraine historicaly was in Polish borders.

[@NoName-yw1pt]

@@PiotrFilipek Lithuanian too

[@Sasha_Plygareva]

прывітанне, Дзіма, дзякуй за гэта цікавае відэа. Мне падабаюцца твае відэа пра вывучэнне і адрозненні беларускай мовы ад іншых славянскіх моў. месяц таму я толькі пачаў размаўляць на беларускім узроўні з кнігамі і г.д., і як толькі я знайшоў ваш канал, мне стала НАМНОГА лепш і цяпер я напісаў увесь гэты допіс! (магчыма, некаторыя памылкі) дзякуй вялікі! яшчэ адна славянская мова завершана, яшчэ 9! да пабачэння і дзякуй!

[@andrzejmotek3344]

I wish all Belorussian will do the same, I mean will use belorussian language in everyday life, udaci i priwiet c Polshi

[@dibi5597]

it's quite similar to polish too. i hear somethimes "radio wnet" and the auditions in belarusian language, and i can understand it quite good. i'm a polish native speaker, i hear a lot of russian and ukrainian language at my job, but belarusian is more understandable than the two others:)

[@martinkullberg6718]

Belarussian is my fav slavic language, it sounds softer, (thus what I noticed in a video from youtube channel :I love languages )

[@anyazelyaeva4135]

My grandmother is from Belarus. She is living in Russia now. It’s nice to hear some Belarusian words. I’d have loved to be able to speak it!

[@kingsoloman42]

My last name translates to pear I’m proud to have this ancestry as an American

[@frantisheq]

thank you, i'm a ruthenian from slovakia understanding many not only slavic languages and this was the first time i've heard belarusian

[@russian_supremacy]

oh, a Russian

[@yuriydee]

I really like Belarusian letter ў. For example we have the word вовк (wolf) in Ukrainian but in reality it is pronounced as "воўк". I wish we had a letter for that English "w" sound as well. I speak Rusyn and Ukraine natively (and Russian as well) and it very easy to understand Belarusian. It sounds like Russian but spoken with a Ukrainian/Polish pronunciation. Very cool language.

[@stranger1625]

As a Pole, I completely agree

[@censord6960]

in fact, in Ukraine, the letter в is not the same as in Russia. It's something between V and W (or в and ў in belarusian). With different vowels it will be closer to ў or to в but this is only because Ukrainian В is specific

[@LeendertCordemans]

Me as Dutchman, we use the letter W and v as is pronounced how we writen. Only it sounds harder. I try to lurn the east slavic language and theire cyrillic letters. I like it. And theire history.

[@yukas1ngas]

I agree. It could be great to add in Russian. So Dr. Watson (from Sherlock Holmes) could be "У'атсон" not "Уотсон"(as in books) or "Ватсон" (in films)

[@Eowyn42]

​@@censord6960yes indeed. Before vowels в is [ʋ~β̞~w]. Usually [w] before /u/ and /ɔ/, sometimes [β̞] before /a/, /ɛ/, and /ɪ/, sometimes [ʋ] before /ɛ/ and /ɪ/, and always /ʋ/ (could be unpalatalized) before /i/.

[@user-lo2ml6lr1u]

Dima, thanks! great video! I live in Belarus and love the Belarusian language very much. Thank you for telling the world about our country. It was interesting to hear the differences, Belarusian is much softer than Russian. Best wishes!

[@aldyleeson]

It's interesting that the G sound pronounced in Bielorusian is pronounced like the G in Dutch. In Russian the G sound is pronounced like in English or any other Latin language.

[@roberts3586]

Very interesting video Dima. Like others I was also wondering about the difference between your two native languages. You state that you are not a teacher but I disagree! You are a natural born teacher as your instincts on how to teach language is so appropriate. I am only going to concentrate on Russian so as to keep it simple for my easily confused mind. Thanks for all the effort that you put into your teaching!! Rob 🇨🇦

[@friendlydima1111]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@user-bi3cn2oo9d]

Good day Dima, English is my native language, I can speak some Russian and considering learning Belarusian. I really like this video))

[@friendlydima1111]

If you wanna know more about Belarusian language, a can recording a new video about it!

[@user-bi3cn2oo9d]

@@friendlydima1111, it'll be great thanks!

[@user-wy8py8gw6g]

Адна памылка. Жадаю міру, а не свету. Гэта як у англійскай world і piece, у беларускай свет і мір, а ў рускай адно слова мир мае 2 значэнні

[@julioluna3366]

Thank you for this video!

[@benburns5995]

Thanks so much for giving me the link to this video to answer my question from the other video. As an English speaker, I think you got your point across very well about the difference. I feel bad for the children, being taught Belarusian language in school and having to speak Russian also. Thanks again for this video, very informative. One thing I find very difficult with Russian is that the pronunciation sounds nothing like the spelling looks.

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

Teaching the Belarusian language in school doesn't make anything worse. After having been taught at a young age, the Belarusians can speak either language without any noticeable accent. They just basically master a wider set of sounds than it would be necessary for only the Belarusian or only the Russian language alone. Though some people in comments complained about Dima's pronunciation of the Russian "щ". I believe that the mismatch between spelling and pronunciation is even worse in English. On the other hand, modern people are able to read the original Shakespeare texts because the written English hasn't changed too much since then. And this can work as an advantage.

[@AmbuhsinghUK]

Belarusian to Russian is like Patois to English (UK). What the languages hear in the original will be written and said exactly like those combined with their native terms.

[@drownedharbour]

This was very informative- I really appreciate your explanation, you did a grand job of being thorough enough to give a proper understanding without overwhelming a newcomer with too much information. I admit I may not have the cultural or linguistic knowledge to have picked up on all of the smaller details myself (I’m an Irishman who speaks some Russian) but your video did a very good job of answering my curiosity even so! Cheers mate!

[@TheLemminkainen]

strange friend in estonian is sõber sounds really like ябар. I subscribed bro!

[@airsoftsurvivalsk1701]

i speak rusyn language,slovak and russian and i have no problem to understand you, it is like a mix of Rusyn and Russian great video

[@jimbell122]

Belarusian sounds more like polish

[@drini9087]

@@grzegorzbernacki7682 Belorussian and Ukrainian are heavily influenced by Polish but they're just Russian dialects.

[@HaloFTW117]

@@drini9087 Ukrainian is a different language, like Germans and Dutch. Not sure about Belarusian though

[@SaturnineXTS]

@@HaloFTW117 Belarusian is much closer to Ukrainian. But still different enough to be a separate language.

[@SaturnineXTS]

@@drini9087 You can't say they're "dialects of Russian", that's a heavily political statement. The East Slavic branch that later became Ukrainian and Belarusian diverged from the other East Slavic branch that would become Russian quite long ago. Ukrainian and Belarusian are closer to the old Rus' language, and direct descendants of it. Russian in turn was more heavily influenced by Old Church Slavonic, among other things. So yeah, it would be just false to say that Belarusian and Ukrainian are somehow variations of Russian, that's false from a linguistic perspective.

[@HaloFTW117]

@@SaturnineXTS thanks for the clarification!

[@chitarrista198]

Belarusian is the most beautiful sounding language in the whole world.

[@hmises3554]

so,, you never heard Croatian I see

[@vetrix215]

​@@hmises3554 are you from Croatia?

[@URAN_235_URAN]

Good video, good explanation. I could understand good the difference as I’m polish. Have a nice day :)

[@kazazim8396]

Nice explanation. You can teach afterall. Well done.

[@friendlydima1111]

Thank you!

[@loading...7583]

Thank you for this video. As an American i can’t tell the difference. Now i see some difference! Thank you!!

[@deninmontgomery4391]

Props on your English, keep up the good work!

[@211jump]

I’m fluent in Ukrainian and have studied the ukrainian language pretty extensively. It’s interesting how similar belarusian and ukrainian can be :) I wish Belarusian was more commonly spoken in Belarus.

[@omoikaneru]

В русской Щ нет звука Ч.

[@headsuphockeypodcast2707]

As an American of Polish descendants I heard a bit more Ukrainian and Polish loan words. Especially with Poland and Ukraine as neighbors. There were some Russian loan words I picked up but Ukrainian and Polish loan words makes it easier for me to understand Belarusian.

[@user-ds9uk3bm2r]

Belarusian and Ukrainians language borrowed a lot of Polish loans words because part of Ukraine and Belarus were part of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. As far as grammar and sentences structure very similar to Russian.

[@JosephLotta-di2tc]

Your English is really good.

[@T0nyTerr0r]

That was impressive, I wish I spoke a different language, I really want to learn Russian.

[@liquidh5226]

I learn Russian! Loving it.

[@hooliator]

It's a good basic explanation. With my thick American accent the some of the words are different, but the the mis-pronunciation is the same.

[@elleamo92]

привет! было интересно услышать белорусский язык, очень схож с украинским👍🏻

[@jonakar]

Hi! I am learning Russian, and my teacher is from Belarus! She's great! Can you give like some short phrases to impress her without looking like I mean to? Just for fun, please ; ) I'm from Lima, Peru!

[@friendlydima1111]

Hey! Tell her instead of the “hello” - приветули-красатули. put the accent on the letter У in each word. These words know only native Russian speakers))

[@applesaucemeowmeow6497]

tell her "pryvyranne" or even better "жыве Belarus"))

[@CubSATPH]

I'm from the Philippines and I though Belarusian speak and pronounce mostly Russian but now I learned that they speak quietly the same but theres a difference in pronounciations and tones and maybe from many centuries ago Russian and Belarusian are speaking only one language but time to time its become different because of migrations of more western europeans peoples and other eastern european settlers who manage to coexist with native belarusians and russians

[@whitelrabbit]

Belarusian has much more similarity with ukrainian than with russian

[@marquincerrada5251]

Marunong ka mag russian?

[@CubSATPH]

@@marquincerrada5251 hindi pa po eh

[@yukas1ngas]

When I started to learn Japanese I did not heard differences between Tokio, Osaka, Kansai dialects After a year of learning mostly Tokio ben I heard Kansai ben and reaction was "WAT?? Wat did she said???" Something similar was with Cologne dialect of German, Brazilian Portuguese sounds more similar with Italian than with Portugal Portuguese

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

The languages separated, because for many centuries the Belarusians and the Russians lived in different countries and often fought against each other. But eventually the Russian Empire spread to 1/6 of the land mass of Earth and in 1772-1795 finally conquered the territory of the modern Belarus too. And then the Russian occupation authorities started to slowly exterminate the Belarusian language, this process still continues even today. The modern Belarusian authorities are de facto Kremlin's subordinates.

[@Manticoruss]

Никто не произносит Щ так в русском…

[@user-ht8mo2rj4x]

Hello, Dima! You mispronounce the Russian «щ», you do it in the Belarusian style))

[@Olivier-GM]

Thanks for the video, Dima ! It's very interesting ! It's very similar but it's 100% the same. This sound ў reminds me of the polish letter ł . There might be an old influence of polish (like French has been influenced by roman + german languages). So... do the young belarusian learn russian at school, or it is not really necessary ?

[@Olivier-GM]

з вялік днём ;)

[@friendlydima1111]

Of course, Russian and Belarusian languages ​​are always taught in Belarusian schools, because there are two official languages ​​in Belarus - Russian and Belarusian.

[@joejacquesschulz8514]

@@friendlydima1111 You have reserved your language very well. If you look at the people in the region of France known as "Little Brittany" you see that they had eventually to re-construct their language. They had to take over French grammar because their grammar was lost. French teachers tried to eradicate the Celtic language of Little Brittany by beating pupils who had been reported for speaking their own language. If you were reported you had to wear a wooden shoe around your neck and you would get a beating by the teacher each and every day until you reported somebody else who would then take over the wooden shoe. A lot of bad things have been said about Russians but other European nations have also often been cruel. Just think of the Basques who are divided between France and Spain. Or Tyrol, a completely German-speaking region that was in part given to Italy after WWI. The Italians even destroyed gravestones for having German inscriptions. All done in their fanatic desire to erase the original language of the conquered region. Politics...

[@andrewshepitko6354]

Yes, you're right! It is the same as polish is the same with german.

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

It looks like there's indeed some influence, albeit a different one. Belarusian Łacinka script is using letter *Ł* for a hard-L sound. For example: "белы" / "bieły" (white), "слабы" / "słaby" (weak), "стол" / "stoł" (table), "маланка" / "małanka" (lightning). The soft-L sound is just the ordinary *L* letter. For example: "столь" / "stol" (ceiling), "лёс" / "los" (destiny). Audio samples for these words can be found in the English wiktionary. Some Belarusian words look identical to Polish words when written using Latin letters, but are just pronounced differently. A few centuries ago written Belarusian used to be much closer to written Polish than it is now.

[@juditr7237]

Hello Dima, thank you for this video It was interesting to hear the differences, Belarusian is much softer than Russian. Although I never learnt any of these, I can hear the differences - btw I'm Hungarian. Best wishes

[@musfikinsan3423]

Differences between Russian and Belarussian is like Türkiye and Azerbajan.Pronounciation and vocabulary are a little bit different.But These are basicaly same language and speakers can understand eachother easily

[@dtikvxcdgjbv7975]

I like Your explanation. 👍 In Croatian we have both č and ć as separate letters. Šč and šć do exist in Croatian words, mostly in dialects and toponyms; standard uses št in those places.

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

In Belarusian *č = cz = ч* and *ć = ць* are also separate letters. But there are no words with *šć = шць*.

[@SaturnineXTS]

Another interesting thing I've noticed (and had been suspecting earlier) is that in many cases Belarusian "ць/дзь" sounds exactly like Russian "ть/дь". Russians kind of give their soft t and d that "c/dz" quality. It's the same in Belarusian, but at least reflected in the spelling, like it is in Polish. I think Ukrainian is the most consistent in this regard, because they pronounce "ть/дь" like Czechs and Slovaks do, and "ць/дзь" like Belarusians do (only this is much less common in their language). Ukrainian is pretty amazing with how many phonemes it has, it even has the equivalents of Polish ć, ś, ź as well! (чь, шь, жь).

[@mytiamos]

I usually use ть for ć, сь for ś, and зь for ź (more etymological spelling)

[@SaturnineXTS]

@@mytiamos you'll be using the latter two anyway, the dilemma is only choosing between ть/ць and дь/дзь. That's of course if we're talking Polish Cyrillic or something, because the languages that actually use Cyrillic already have defined orthographies

[@SaturnineXTS]

@@mytiamos Unless I understood you wrong. What I meant was that Ukrainian чь, шь, жь sound like Polish ć, ś, ź - not that they're meant to reflect those letters etymologically. For example "Запоріжжя" sounds exactly like "Zaporiźzia"

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

@@SaturnineXTS The Belarusian language has its own Latin script too. For example, "дзень" (day) is written as "dzień" and "Запарожжа" is written as "Zaparožža". The Belarusian word "ззяць" (to shine) is written as "źziać". Also the Belarusian "ць/дзь" sounds exactly like the Russian "ть/дь" in this video probably because the author actually has a bit of a Belarusian accent in his Russian speech. You can also find a lot of complaints in comments about his pronunciation of *щ.*

[@groupmember1332]

Hello, could you make a video for basic human anatomy ex where does it hurt? Arm, chest, leg, back etc? Thank you

[@friendlydima1111]

I did the similar video. check. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGTWqq1oo5WgqtE

[@519djw6]

*Здравствуй, Дима! Большое спасибо за сравнение и контраст между русским языком и белорусским. Я американец, a живу в Японии, где преподаю английский язык и английскую литературу. Я свободно говорю по-немецки и стараюсь выучить русский язык, потому что хочу переводить русскую литературу на английский. Я с нетерпением жду просмотра новых твоих видео. Кроме того, мне интересно, были бы заинтересованы ли ты (или кто-то из твоих знакомых) в русско-английском языковом обмене через "Zoom".*

[@friendlydima1111]

Hello! Yes for sure

[@519djw6]

@@friendlydima1111 Hello Dima! How can we make contact with each other in order to arrange a language exchange?

[@pezos5]

Nice video, I like Slavic languages. Serbian has two ch sound, Ч pronounced like you pronounced Ч in Belarusian, and Ћ pronounced like you did Ч in Russian. Like cz and ć in Polish.

[@jeffrachelburkhalter3783]

I don't know what is wrong with my ears but Belarusian doesn't sound at all like Polish to me, but very much like Russian. I can hear the difference, but it's not huge. Ukrainian sounds a lot like Russian to me, too. Polish sounds completely different.

[@jiritichy7967]

From this limited lecture, I would be inclined to say that Belorussian is a dialect of Russian. But I would not dispute your feeling that it is a different language. This reminds me a bit the differences between Czech and Slovak. If it was not for Hungarian invasion and one thousand year historic separation of these two, they would likely be one language, with more dialects than two.

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

There's a "Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe 2015" blog post and a chart. According to it, Belarusian is very close to Ukrainian. And both of these languages are placed somewhere roughly in the midway between Polish and Russian. One thousand years is a long time and I'm actually surprised that Czech and Slovak don't differ more.

[@nzurro3440]

Hey Dima. Whenever I heard a russian pronounce the "šč" letter in a word it sounded different than the way you said it. I can hear the Č part in your example(barely hear any difference from the belarusian example) but when a russian is talking I only hear some kind of a soft Š sound, can't hear the Č part at all.

[@friendlydima1111]

I'll answer this comment in one of my next video. OK ?

[@rickc-137___]

Dima i would love to go to Belarus to learn My family history. I was adopted when i was 2 years of age. So it could be quite difficult to track down my parents.

[@tommotom7324]

Hello Dima. I am English and had no idea of the differences between Russian and Belarusian. Thanks for your clear presentation.

[@friendlydima1111]

Hello! You're welcome

[@lennardschneider6847]

Very good =) I am a German who learned Dutch and Flemish. This seems the exact same relationship as with Russian, Ukranian and Belarussian. I am amazed that the letter "ge" pronunciation differences between German, Dutch and Flemish are the same as in the languages you discussed here. Germans say "ge" like Russians. In Dutch it is pronounced more raspy sounding, from deeper down the throat (like ch in "Rachmaninov", whatever the spelling in Russian ;-)). And the Flemish pronounce it softer or just like "h" or simply leave it out ;-D. In Ukranian you have these two options for the "ge" sound, right? And in Belarussian it is even in more cases pronounced like "h" or not at all, right? Awesome. I love this language stuff. Super exciting =D

[@maggsun]

а, небольшая поправочка: щ - это просто щ, не щч, это уже как-то как на украинском(или беларуском), ну, я имею ввиду, в русском нет двух звуков таких, просто один звук «щ»

[@gludiousmaximus7918]

Serbo croation has both the soft and hard "ch" like they have in russian and belorussian separately

[@HeroManNick132]

In Russian Ч and ЧЬ is always soft, while in Belarusian is always hard. Polish has also soft Ч too.

[@ivan.jeremic]

Funny the example of "He said" in Serbian it seems it is a mix of the two, we say "On kazao"

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

There are also two slightly different variants in Belarusian: "Jon skazaŭ" - "He said" "Jon kazaŭ" - "He was saying"

[@edvibal]

Thanks man, really informative and understandable explanation. I saw a video where it was said that people in Belarus start to speak more Russian than Belarussian, do you think Belarussian will go extinct in the future?

[@friendlydima1111]

hello! i don't think so. and the same time i hope that belarusian language will alive

[@user-ps2yl2ju8m]

👍

[@kfletcher2005]

Sounds like the difference between Belarusian and Russian is like the difference between english speakers in the deep south of USA and the mid west or north east dialects. I'm sure there's more to it, but I just speaking as a casual observer

[@deninmontgomery4391]

Only in regard to the Belarussian language, is it easy to tell where in Belarus somebody is from based on their accent or does everyone speak Belarussian about the same?

[@friendlydima1111]

some people from belarus have a very strong belarusian accent. therefore, some people from Belarus can immediately be recognized by their accent)))

[@user-cp3vc4ho9g]

В беларускай мове лiтара "р" заусёды цвёрдая.

[@Adam-jr4lx]

Tell me if I am correct, Belarusian is a dialect of Russian with Polish words. The Belarusian pronunciation and intonation is very similar to South Russian (belgorod) but the Polish words allow Ukrainians to understand Belarusian better than Russians. I'm learning Russian but I don't want to speak with a North or Moscow dialect. Do you know any material for learning Belarusian or Southern Russia. In southern Russian, I don't think they say , they , or something with or . I think is an older pronunciation. Same between >, and I want to learn the most modern, THE EASIEST, pronunciation. Я хачу гаварить и .

[@friendlydima1111]

maybe if you want to learn Belarusian language try to find different Belarusian movies in Belarusian or read Belarusian books)

[@therapistconsultant4287]

Sounds the same to me

[@ChristineTHuynh_FineArt]

Dima, would it be easy for a russian to quickly and easily learn/understand belarusian and ukrainian then and vice versa?

[@friendlydima1111]

Russian is not difficult to learn Belarusian or Ukrainian. I think so.

[@silviagrueva4361]

It's interesting to me, because the letter щ in Bulgarian is pronounced "sht", not "shch". For example, щастие (happiness) is pronounced "shtastie".

[@bostonlab6923]

Sound like the same to me. ExtentWorld

[@NoName-yw1pt]

Sounds similar to Ukrainian too

[@crusiethmaximuss]

[@isthissomesortofmeme8932]

where can i learn this languge i was born in belarus in 2002 but later on moved to isreal and my perants didnt care enough to teach me it only russian but after the war i wanted to learn my languge (they still refuse to teach me saying its a waste of time)

[@friendlydima1111]

hello! to be honest i don't know where and how you cad learn Belarusian language. Sorry

[@gotse9354]

Кола in Macedonian means “car” 🚙

[@friendlydima1111]

It’s interesting!

[@szpulc]

I am from poland and I unerstand belarus language 80% but russian 40 %

[@Raphael-Luczak]

It's the first time I've heard about the difference between Belarusian and Russian. But if they're so similar, then it's not its own language; it's more like a dialect. Belarusian sounds like a mix of Polish and Russian. Is the language actually still used in Belarus or have all levels of government now been Russified?

[@hazimkash7206]

Здравствуйте Я Хазим I am an Arabic native speaker, learning Russian I got confused when am practicing listening am feel some thing is wrong between Russian and other similar languages ( Ukraine. Belarusian. Kazakhstan ect ...) But I can say from your speech Russian is little bit rough in the voice compared to Belarusian

[@stsor]

❤🎉

[@VeskoBanov]

I am bulgarian and i found both languages close to bulgarian. Can you make comparison between bulgarian and belarussian?

[@friendlydima1111]

sorry i don't know bulgarian

[@melisa4242]

i think the sounds that use for belarusian more easier than russian

[@melisa4242]

for turkish*

[@crabpeople6887]

Good 👍, but there is no such a letter/sound as 'щ' in Belarus language, neither in spelling, nor in pronunciation, neither in cyrilic, nor in latin. 'ш', 'ч' never become soft. Make comparison around differences and equality in Belarus and Ukrainian languages, and also three of kinds.

[@dzmitry_pavajba]

Я ведаю, што вы не настаўнік, не мовазнаўца, філёляг. Але ё некалькі момантаў ў відэа, дзе мне б хацелася троху выправіць Вас, спадаре. 1. Наконт фрыкатыўнага гуку "г" і звонкага "ґ". Яны ня так выглядаюць ў МФА, але ўсё ж. Ў беларускай мове ё абодва гэтыя гукі. Ў старабеларускіх тэкстах, або ў творы Караткевіча "Хрыстос прызямліўся ў Гародні" выкарыстоўваецца спалучэньне "кг", якое тады чыталася як "ґ". Ў словах "газэта", "гвалт" на самай справе вымаўляцца звонкі зычны. 2. Слова "прывітаньне" не зусім ўласьціва беларускай мове. Яно ўжываецца, але яно пабудавана па сістэме славянскага герундыя (усе канчаткі "-еньне"/"-яньне"). Для беларускіх вітаньняў больш спрыяльныя звароты "Вітанкі", "Дабрыдзень", "Дабранач", "Сыць Божа", "Вітаю" і гэтак далей. 3. Розьніца ў гуках, літарах таксама ня скончваецца. Цікава было б паслухаць аб "дз", "дж", напрыклад. Шмат цікавінак! Гэтая розная сістэма афіксаў (папа-, -нік), адрозненьні ў артаграпхіі, адсутнасьці дзеепрыметніка (ён больш ўласьцівы быў старабеларускай мове, хаця захаваўся зараз ў літаратурнай) граматыцэ, захаваны клічны склон (ў расейскай ён захаваўся толькі ў рэдукаваным выглядзе: "Дим", "Ань", але не ўсюды) і г. д. Шчыры дзякуй Вам, спадаре, за гэтае файнае відэа! Вельмі ўдзячны, што ў KZbin ё людзі, якія расказваюць замежнікам аб беларускай мове. Вы цудоўна размаўляеце на ўсіх трох мовах.

[@schwarzepest9425]

Таксама яшчэ можна нагадаць проа заўжды зацвярдзелы гук "Р" і асаблівасці вымаўлення мяккга "З" у некаторых словах (апошняе тычыцца таксама дзекання і цекання).

[@41nwkp_by]

спадзяюся, Ваша беларуская мова стане лепш((

[@maggsun]

я из россии, но на примере украины поняла, как важен язык поначалу меня злило, как все вдруг стали переходить на украинский, будто бы забыли русский, но потом я поняла, как по-детски, наверно, выглядела бы, если бы действительно всем за это предъявляла теперь я вижу, как это важно. точнее, я посмотрела на все с другой стороны. я очень часто думала про многих артистов/исполнителей «ну, это наши типа», потому что артист пел на русском. хотя, как потом, повзрослев, узнала, то время и стекло, потап и настя - украинские исполнители, а орел и решка - украинская программа, как и сваты, например. и если украинский стал популяризоваться после 2014го, а особенно заметно в 2019м, то беларуский как будто бы и вымирает… я очень редко где его слышу, последнее, что видела - стенд ап славы комиссаренко на этом языке. и мне, честно, очень жаль, что все это происходит с вашим языком. так получается, что в начале войны у меня было чувство, что все вдруг оказались «не теми, кем я их считала», раз за разом замечала, что тот, на кого долго подписана - украинец или беларус, мне казалось, будто все вокруг назло не используют русский, то сейчас пришло понимание, что язык/мова - это идентичность, это дает всем понять сразу, кто ты и откуда, это не смешивает все яркие цвета в одну серую массу, так сказать. мы разные, мы уникальны, и это классно, а еще - важно. я очень надеюсь, что весь этот ужас скоро закончится, мы будем жить без двух сумасшедших стариков, в демократических странах, где наши права будут защищены, где мы сможем спокойно называть вещи своими именами, где будет свобода слова и глобализация - все то, без чего мы никак не проживем. и я очень-очень верю в беларусов и у беларускую мову❤

[@censord6960]

Спасибо за комментарий, вы пришли к выводу к которому большинство россиян не способны прийти( по крайней мере пока что), я даже удивлён если честно, в хорошем смысле этого слова. Хотя даже в Украине, есть не пробиваемые люди, которые не могут понять что вы, как россиянка, поняла. Поддерживаю слова про беларускую мову. Прям даже противно на душе от осознания того, что близкий и очень красивый язык, может вот так вот просто, несправедливо, исчезнуть навсегда.

[@jorgeluiscapiello414]

Frankly speaking I'm surprised about your position. Seems like not all Russians are brainwashed zombies after all.

[@M.O.N.A.]

Английский язык в произношении - это, как русский, белорусский, украинский, польский, чешский, словацкий, болгарский в одной стране. Каждый говорит - кто в лес, кто по дрова. Я работаю 14 лет в Великобритании. Здесь никто не заморачивается, как нужно говорить, все друг друга понимают. А произношение - это идентефикация: из какой страны ( СК, США, Австралия, Канада, Африканские страны, Индия, Пакистан и пр.), из какого города или из какой семьи.

[@teenator579]

А почему вы произнесли Щ как шч на русском? Щ - это произносится как [⁠ɕ(ː)⁠], а не [ʂt͡ɕ]

[@nelsonespinoza1373]

I didn't know about it. I know Bielorussia, Russia and Ukraine speak Russian language but i didn't know that there is a difference. Will have a problem in my speech in Bielorussia?

[@friendlydima1111]

I dont know. The Belarusian language differs in pronunciation from Russian.

[@thenaturalyogi5934]

the L sounds like the difference between PortugaL vs Braziwwww in the Portuguese language

[@user-oi2so1ke3s]

Братан,ты щ не так произносишь, а так крутое видео

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

He is also incorrectly pronouncing the Belarusian words "дождж", "дзвесце", "дзе", "свету". Moreover, the Belarusian word "свет" actually means "world", while the correct translation for "peace" is "мір". Yes, he did warn that his Belarusian is not the best. And it wasn't just him being shy or modest, there were indeed many actual errors.

[@boske_77]

Isn't Грошы archaic word in Russian?

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

In Russian "гроши" means "pennies" or a small insignificant amount of money. But the Belarusian "грошы" means "money" in the usual sense.

[@OmPrakash-pc1ec]

чырвона also exists in archaic russian as "червонный" there are many such words which are present in modern ukrainian and belarusian but also in archaic russian

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

@@OmPrakash-pc1ec Yes, there's more than one example of such words. But in general, it's incorrect to assume that every Belarusian word has an archaic Russian counterpart. Though once again, the Belarusian "грошы" and the Russian "гроши" are both modern words. But the former means a good thing and the latter means a bad thing.

[@alexandermarkov300]

Большинство из этих особенностей характерны также и для южнорусских диалектов. Вы не упомянули яканье и чередование у/в (у лясу = рус. лит. в лесу).

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

Правільна "у ле́се" з націскам на першы склад. Паўднёварасейскія дыялекты - палітызаванае пытанне, бо на гэтых сучасных тэрыторыях Расеі калісці пражывалі этнічныя ўкраінцы, але сёння іх амаль цалкам русіфікавалі. Нейкія парэшткі ўкраінскай мовы і асаблівасці вымаўлення там засталіся.

[@alexandermarkov300]

@@SiarheiSiamashka Ну я пример из южнорусского приводил. И на южнорусских территориях украинцы никогда не жили. Не надо людей вводить в заблуждение.

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

@@alexandermarkov300 Я ж загадзя папярэдзіў, што пытанне палітызаванае і на гэты конт знайсці паразуменне праблематычна 🙂 У вікіпедыі ёсць мапы "File:Ethnic-Ukrainians.jpg" і "File:Historical_borders_of_Belarusians.png". Таксама патрэбна разумець, што этнічныя межы ўвесь час перасоўваліся ў розныя бакі. І на адной і той жа тэрыторыі маглі адначасова пражываць людзі розных нацыянальнасцяў. Кагосьці было больш, кагосьці - менш. Але сёння не мае ніякай розніцы, што было сто гадоў таму. Існуюць міжнародна прызнаныя межы краін і іх трэба паважаць.

[@rebelvodka995]

To me Belarussian and Russian sounds equal

[@adriank9]

The words in Belarusian that are different than Russian are simply Polish. Belarusian is like old Ruthenian language mixed with Polish and Russian. For hundreds of years we call Russians as Rosjanie or Ruski (Ruskie) but same time we call both Belarusians and Ukrainians as Rusini (Ruthenians) who after some time recognized themselves as Belarussians and Ukrainians.

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

Maybe that's so in this particular video, but it would be incorrect to generalize this statement. The Belarusian language has plenty of words, which are neither Polish nor Russian. A lot of such words are shared with the Ukrainian language though.

[@Cube930]

As a Russian i can understand belarussian but not so much ukrainian

[@user-vv2sl5sd8x]

Что за шчотка? Мне интересно в какой части России произносят щ как шч. Я вырос в Казахстане и там щ произносится иначе, только одним звуком

[@vladimirpandilov2916]

Belorusian is more close to Ukranian, almost same.

[@ronaldluning4010]

Kind of like how Ukrainian is similar to russian. Good luck with that.

[@friendlydima1111]

Thanks!

[@aglegator5115]

Does Belarusian have the ь?

[@friendlydima1111]

yes, of course

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

There's *ь.* But no *ъ,* which is replaced by the apostrophe *'*

[@mehurar]

TAZ

[@MatheusSilva-qz1mk]

Russian sounds more "soft" to speak in general form, it has more "soft" sounds in comparison to Belarusian

[@niknik3865]

Зміцер, Змітрык, Змітрок а не Дзмітрый. Так ці не?

[@helenstark4348]

Do we say шч in Russian?)) I usually say щ :D ШЧ is more like Ukranian or something

[@Manticoruss]

Никто так не говорит

[@helenstark4348]

@@Manticoruss как? ШЧ в русском не говорят, только Щ

[@Manticoruss]

@@helenstark4348 Я так и сказал.

[@martinim1998]

If a Russian speaks only Russian and zero Belarusian language, meets with a Belarusian only speaks Belarusian language and zero Russian, can they communicate with each other? if not, how much percentage do they understand each other? Just curious...

[@friendlydima1111]

a good question) i l'll answer in one of the next video

[@mymanner7357]

About 85%

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

That's a hypothetical situation, because in practice it's difficult to find a Belarusian, who can't understand Russian. But if such situation somehow arises, then it would be possible to communicate via rephrasing problematic sentences in some other way. There are a lot of synonyms in both languages and it's possible to find some common ground with trial and error approach. BTW, there's also an artificially created Interslavic language. Which constructed its vocabulary by specifically cherry-picking words, which are shared by many Slavic languages. A kind of frankensteiner.

[@shon7507]

The two languages are very similar (even more than Spanish and Portuguese) so they should be able to understand one another

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

*English:* "If a Russian speaks only Russian and zero Belarusian language, meets with a Belarusian only speaks Belarusian language and zero Russian, can they communicate with each other? if not, how much percentage do they understand each other? Just curious..." *Russian:* "Если россиянин, разговаривающий только по-русски и ноль по-белорусски, повстречает белоруса, разговаривающего только по-белорусски и ноль по-русски, то смогут ли они общаться друг с другом? Если нет, то на сколько процентов они понимают друг друга? Просто любопытно..." *Belarusian Cyrillic:* "Калі расіянін, які размаўляе толькі па-руску і нуль па-беларуску, сустрэне беларуса, які размаўляе толькі па-беларуску і нуль па-руску, то ці змогуць яны камунікаваць адзін з адным? Калі не, то на колькі працэнтаў яны разумеюць адзін аднаго? Проста цікава..." *Belarusian Łacinka:* "Kali rasijanin, jaki razmaŭlaje tolki pa-rusku i nul pa-biełarusku, sustrenie biełarusa, jaki razmaŭlaje tolki pa-biełarusku i nul pa-rusku, ci zmohuć jany kamunikavać adzin z adnym? Kali nie, to na kolki pracentaŭ jany razumiejuć adzin adnaho? Prosta cikava..." The Belarusian phrase has 38 words, also counting repetitions. At least 9 of them will be likely difficult to understand for the Russians (калі, які, размаўляе, сустрэне, які, размаўляе, ці, калі, цікава). Some of the others mismatch by more than one letter, but should be easy to guess (змогуць, яны, камунікаваць, адзін, колькі). So the lexical difference here is ~24% or possibly more. The Russian language learners may give it a try. Potentially the difference may increase to ~39% or more, because some extra rephrasing/substitutions are also possible in the Belarusian translation, but the Belarusian person in our scenario doesn't speak Russian and has no idea about what is or isn't easy to understand for the other guy: толькі - выключна (exclusively / исключительно) нуль - ніколі (never / никогда) змогуць - здолеюць (will be able to / будут способны) працэнтаў - адсоткаў (percents / процентов)

[@billyschyste7485]

Привет

[@friendlydima1111]

Hi

[@maksymmerkulow5196]

А якая мова бліжэй да расейскай - беларуская альбо ўкраінская?

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

Ніхто гэтага дакладна не ведае і зрабіць такія падлікі праблематычна праз наяўнасць вялікай колькасці розных сінонімаў ва ўсіх мовах. Мабыць гэтая розніца прыкладна аднолькавая, то бок дзесьці ў межах хібнасці.

[@user-zv9zc9bc2y]

Расейскай?

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

@@user-zv9zc9bc2y Расейская мова - гэта мова сучаснай Расеі. Руская мова - гэта мова старажытнай Русі. У класічным варыянце беларускай мовы існуе такое адрозненне.

[@user-zv9zc9bc2y]

@@SiarheiSiamashka Просто в переводчик на белорусский мне выдавал "Руская",хотя я не уточнял про Московскую я или Киевскую Русь.Дзякуй,буду ведать.

[@alesjazevic3357]

In our byelorussian language there isn't letter g, only h -- hvałt, hanak, ni zhi)

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

Examples of old Belarusian from wikisource: "Śledam za im wajšoŭ i hość na ganak." "Woś na ganak swoj krok Śkierawała prytnom, Kab paczuć, jak dziadok Budzie hrać pad waknom."

[@alesjazevic3357]

@@SiarheiSiamashka Tut jašče w jak v. Chiba pravilna?! Pewnie ž nie! A Viačorki jašče g-г рагатае wžyvajuć. Archaizm albo nie treba nam cełaja litera dla spolščanych ci zrusyfikavanych słow. Nie słovaw!

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

@@alesjazevic3357 Źmiena *w* na *v* adbyłasia davoli pozna i ŭ sapraŭdnych papiarovych biełaruskich knihach ci gazetach amal nie vykarystoŭvałasia. Možna pahladzieć archivy gazety "Krynica" na archive kropka org. Tam vykarystoŭvać *v* pačali tolki ŭ apošnich numarach 1939-1940 hodu. U łacincy ad litary *g* nijakaj škody niama i vykidvać jaje niama nijakaha sensu. Što cikava, "Krynica" sapraŭdy nazyvaje siabie "hazeta" a nie "gazeta". To bok, byli roznyja varyjanty. A ŭ biełaruskaj movie huk *g* jość. Naprykład "vakzał" čytajecca jak "vagzał". Змена *w* на *v* адбылася даволі позна і ў сапраўдных папяровых беларускіх кнігах ці газетах амаль не выкарыстоўвалася. Можна паглядзець архівы газеты "Krynica" на archive кропка org. Там выкарыстоўваць *v* пачалі толькі ў апошніх нумарах 1939-1940 года. У лацінцы ад літары *g* ніякай шкоды няма і выкідваць яе няма ніякага сэнсу. Што цікава, "Krynica" сапраўды называе сябе "hazeta" а не "gazeta". То бок, былі розныя варыянты. А ў беларускай мове гук *g* ёсць. Напрыклад "вакзал" чытаецца як "ваґзал". The change of *w* to *v* happened quite late and was almost never used in real Belarusian paper books or newspapers. You can view the archives of the newspaper "Krynica" at archive point org. They started using *v* there only in the last issues of 1939-1940. The Latin letter *g* does no harm and there is no point in throwing it away. Interestingly, "Krynica" does label itself as "hazeta" and not "gazeta". So there were different orthography variants in use. And the Belarusian language does have *g* sound. For example, "вакзал" is pronounced as "vagzał".

[@alesjazevic3357]

@wr3t3tgetedxadge3fvzdqfgwr5gva Then where does the BY state designation come from? From Byelorus, you must new it. And further. We don't have city Gomel, only Homiel

[@SiarheiSiamashka]

@@alesjazevic3357 Among the country codes, BE is already taken by Belgium, BL is taken by Saint-Barthélemy, BS is taken by Bahamas, BR is taken by Brazil, BN is taken by Brunei Darussalam. But at least ISO 639-1 / ISO 639-2 assign *BE* / *BEL* codes to the Belarusian language.