According to UNESCO, the Belarusian language belongs to the group of languages that are threatened with extinction. In the Atlas of world languages in danger, it is designated as vulnerable. This is the first of four steps on the path to extinction.
According to statistics, on average only 3% of respondents do this. But an average of 43.5% of the population speaks the so-called "trasianka". People use it to communicate in stores, with friends, in the family. But about 18.5% read publications in the Belarusian language.
- Why do you think so few Belarusians speak Belarusian?
- What will happen to our language in a few years? How can we avoid the extinction of our language?
