Belarusian Language

Belarusian also spelled  Belarusan , older spellings  Belorussian  and  Byelorussian , formerly called  White Ruthenian  or  White Russian (not to be confused with the “White” Russians who fought against the communists after the Russian Revolution of 1917) , Belarusian  Belaruskaya mova  East Slavic language that is historically the native language of most Belarusians. Many 20th-century governments of Belarus had policies favouring the Russian language, and, as a result, Russian is more widely used in education and public life than Belarusian. Belarusian forms a link between the Russian and Ukrainian languages, since its dialects shade gradually