Does everyone speak Russian in Belarus?
>>216588036Pretty much everyone knows it. Not everyone speaks it day to day.
>>216588097I doubt IT desu. They at least speak some Mix of belarusian and Russian. I observed this in ukrainians btw
>>216588036I've met quite a few and all of them spoke Russian. Very clean Russian too, they have less of an accent than the Kubanoids.
>>216588413>They at least speak some Mix of belarusian and Russian. IYeah it's called surzhik. A lot of people in more remote areas seem to speak it. Seems like an interesting study into geographical linguistics. But I dont count that as Russian
>>216588763>Seems like an interesting study into geographical linguisticsNah, it's just a creole. Same thing happens in Kazakhstan with Shalakazakh (yes, that's an actual word). Sounds even more cringe since Kazakh and Russian are unrelated.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgiqf0JB4Y
>>216588413Go to villages and find plenty of people speaking Belarusian only.
>>216588817>Nah, it's just a creole.Essentially I guess. What i meant by geographical linguistics is how such languages naturally merge in accordance to geography. Also I made a mistake, surzhik is the ukrainian-russian mix. The Russian-Belarusian mix is called Trasianka and the Ukrainian-Belarusian mix is called West Polesian.
>>216588981>in accordance to geographyIt's more political than anything. I've met Kazakhs from parts of Kazakhstan that are like 99% Kazakh. They struggled to speak Russian, but their Kazakh wasn't the literary Kazakh one is taught at school, but rather this Kazakh-Russian creole with random Russian words everywhere.
>>216589099No it's not remotely political. It's just how these languages have evolved historically. I dont know about Kazakh, im talking about Belarus
>>216589186Historically, no Kazakh spoke Russian until the 1930s. The only exceptions were people with direct ties to the Imperial government.
>>216589216Kazakhs didn't exist until 1930s so that makes sense
>>216589288Lying faggot at it again.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_Khanate
>>216589355>The Kazakh Khanate is a historiographical name proposed by historians in the second third of the 20th century and is not found in contemporary historical sources[12][13]Retard holy shit, how does it feel to be humiliated in 2 separate threads
>>216589399>these people, they didn’t exist>Russian vassalization treaties with zhuzes going back to Anna Ioanovna?>all CIA lies o algoWhat do you gain from humiliating yourself? Does it excite you?
