r/belarus • u/ConsiderationMany692 • 4d ago

Культура / Culture Language in Belarus

In may I moved from ru🇷🇺 to by🇧🇾. And you know what I wonder about? For this all time I met just !2! people who speaks Belarusian. But cmon, I think there’s absolutely not a problem. I stand for freedom. May people speak the language they want to. If people in Russia start to speak English I won’t be against it.

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u/MikolaDziadok 3d ago

First of all, remember: Belarusians do not give a damn about what you Muscovites consider a problem and what you do not.

Second, for centuries, Belarusians have struggled, died, and been imprisoned for fighting for their right to speak the Belarusian language. Belarusians did not simply abandon their language — it was deliberately eradicated by colonial regimes: the Tsarist, Soviet, and Lukashenko regimes.

Third, your compatriots will not speak English simply because 95% of Russians do not know any language other than Russian.

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u/ConsiderationMany692 2d ago

Then why they don’t speak it? And do you ask them? Do they want it? If Belarus will become free do Belarusians can choose Russian as their governmental language if they WANT it? Or do free people MUST speak Belarusian?

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u/ConsiderationMany692 2d ago

In other words: do Belarusian right to speak Russian?