1. Family: Indo-European
  2. Genus: Slavic

Belorussian

WALS coordinates: 54° N, 28° E

spoken in Belarus

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Byelorussian
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Belarusan,
    • Byelorussian
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based
    Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes
    Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect Tense and aspect
    Verbal Number and Suppletion None
    Word Order
    Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
    Simple Clauses
    Negative Morphemes Negative particle
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Tea Words derived from Sinitic cha