lang_description: "East Slavic language, shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian are mutually intelligible. According to a study done by the Belarusian government in 2009, 72% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while Belarusian is used by only 11.9% of Belarusians. 29.4% of Belarusians can write, speak, and read Belarusian, while 52.5% can only read and speak it. According to the research, one out of ten Belarusians does not understand Belarusian.",
classification: "Indo-European; Balto-Slavic; Slavic; East Slavic",
speaker_attitude: "People who speak Belarusian feel positively about the language, while most of Belarusian citizens are ashamed to speak it in public, and some of them even feel aggressive to Belarusian speakers. Some people call Belarusian "country language" or "farmer language".",
government_support: "According to Constitution of Republic of Belarus, Belarusian is state language, and it studied in schools. But officials don't use (or use rarely) Belarusian neither in documents nor in public speech. Most of schools in Belarus are Russian-languaged.",
institutional_support: "",
_other_languages_used: null,
domains_of_use: "",
speakers_worldwide: "~4 900 000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "~5 000 000",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
speakers_worldwide_year: null,
bibliography_of_vitality: "",
bibliography_of_context: "",
bibliography_of_locations: "",
user_submission: "Belarusian language is in vulnerable state: most of Belarusian citizens, as well as officials, don't use it. While almost 50% of Belarusians call Belarusian their "mother tongue", they rarely use it even at home, not to mention the fact sometimes attempt to speak Belarusian outdoors may lead to aggression of some citizens.",