True or False: Russian is the national language of both countries
True. Belarus has both Russian and Belarusian as national languages.
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This language has 33 letters in its alphabet
What is Russian
100
адзін
What is Belrusian
Russian equivalent: один
English: One
200
This country was founded july 27, 1990
What is Belarus?
200
интервью
intervue
What is interview
Belarusian: інтэрв'ю
200
Belarus was part of the USSR
True
200
This language has 32 letters in its alphabet
What is Belarusian
200
сябар
siabr
What is Belarusian
Russian equivalent: друг
English: Friend
300
The USSR collapsed in this year
What is 1991 (December 26)
300
Миссионер
missionair
What is missionary
Belarusian: місіянер
300
Belarusian is a dialect of Russian
False. They're completely separate langauges.
300
This language has roughly 150 million native speakers.
What is Russian
There are only 3.2 million native Belarusian speakers.
300
тысячы гадоў
teesatchee gadoi
What is Belarusian
Russian equivalent: тысячи лет
English: Thousands of years
400
A big nuclear event that decimated the birth rate of Belarus.
What is the chernobyl nuclear disaster (April 26, 1986)
400
смелый
smelly
What is NOT smelly it means bold. :)
Belarusian: смелы
400
Rubles are used in both countries
True. Russia uses the Russian Ruble, Belarus uses the Belarusian Ruble.
Currently 1 Belarusian Ruble=29 Russian Rubles.
400
These langauges are all part of the Slavic family of languages. Even closer related there are 3 languages that are considered East Slavic languages. What are they?
What is Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian.
400
Два
What is Russian and Belarusian
English: Two
500
This country/these countries were part of Kievan Rus in the 9th century
What are Russia and Belarus.
500
Культура
kultura
What is culture
500
True or False: Word order in both languages is set in stone
False. In both languages you can arange word order however you want.
500
Name 5 countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet.
What are Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Serbian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. (there are over 50 to choose from)
500
Ад
What is both.
Belarussian meaning 'from'
Russian meaning 'hell'