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Belarusophone
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English
Etymology
From en Belarus -o- -phone.
Adjective
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Speaking Belarusian.
en 2004 Elena Gapova The Nation In Between; or, Why Intellectuals Do Things with Words Sibelan Forrester; Magdalena J. Zaborowska; Elena Gapova Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze Bloomington, IN w:Indiana University Press 0253344328 WBxskEjDtkQC 80 Belarusophone Belarusophone intellectual life seems to be blooming, an idea one might get from the announcement in the journal Frahmenty that brilliantly plays on myths of national origin and historical continuity and the names of canonical figures and contemporary actors of national revival:
Translations
Belarusian-speaking
Belarusian: be беларускамоўны
Finnish: fi valkovenäläisenkielinen
French: fr biélorussophone
German: de belarussischsprachig, de weißrussischsprachig
Polish: pl białoruskojęzyczny
Russian: ru белорусскоязы́чный
Swedish: sv vitryskspråkig
Ukrainian: uk білоруськомо́вний
Noun
One who speaks Belarusian.
en 2004 Andrew Wilson; Clelia Rontoyanni Security or Prosperity?: Belarusian and Ukrainian Choices Robert Legvold; Celeste A. Wallander Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine Cambridge, MA w:American Academy of Arts and Sciences 0262621827 GtKYl9ACNRgC 25 Belarusophones 25–26 The “nationally conscious” as a political constituency approximately correspond with habitual Belarusophones (i.e. those who prefer Belarusian as their primary language of communication), who make up around 10 percent of the population.
Translations
Belarusian speaker
German: de Belarussischsprecher m, de Belarussischsprecherin f, de Belarussischsprachiger m, de Belarussischsprachige f, de Weißrussischsprecher m, de Weißrussischsprecherin f, de Weißrussischsprachiger m, de Weißrussischsprachige f