60% of Belarusians consider Belarusian their native language

Such numbers were revealed by the census of population-2009. Belarusian language is a native language for 60% of the population of Belarus. Nevertheless, only 30% use it in communication. 2 million 327 thousand people speak Belarusian at home. Russian language is the basic language for communication: more than 6 million people speak Russian.

Besides, census of population- 1999 showed that Belarusian language had been used in everyday communication by 36,7% of our citizens, and 73,7% had called it native.


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