Belarusophone

English

Etymology

From Belarus +‎ -o- +‎ -phone.

Adjective

Belarusophone (not comparable)

1. Speaking Belarusian.
   • 2004, Elena Gapova, “The Nation In Between; or, Why Intellectuals Do Things with Words”, in Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Elena Gapova, editors, Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

     Belarusophone intellectual life seems to be blooming, an idea one might get from the announcement in the journal Frahmenty that brilliantly plays on myths of national origin and historical continuity and the names of canonical figures and contemporary actors of national revival: […]

Translations

Belarusian-speaking

• Belarusian: беларускамоўны (bjelaruskamóŭny)
• Finnish: valkovenäläisenkielinen
• French: biélorussophone (fr)
• German: belarussischsprachig, weißrussischsprachig
• Polish: białoruskojęzyczny (pl)
• Russian: белорусскоязы́чный (ru) (belorusskojazýčnyj)
• Swedish: vitryskspråkig
• Ukrainian: білоруськомо́вний (bilorusʹkomóvnyj)

Noun

Belarusophone (plural Belarusophones)

1. One who speaks Belarusian.
   • 2004, Andrew Wilson, Clelia Rontoyanni, “Security or Prosperity?: Belarusian and Ukrainian Choices”, in Robert Legvold, Celeste A. Wallander, editors, Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine, Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

     The “nationally conscious” as a political constituency approximately correspond with habitual Belarusophones (i.e. those who prefer Belarusian as their primary language of communication), who make up around 10 percent of the population.