Are Poland and Belarus allies?

They joined the United Nations together in October 1945 as original members. Cultural relations between the two are quite friendly but diplomatic relations between the two countries are currently very strained.

How similar is Belarusian and Polish?

Difficult to say.. Belarusian, Polish and Ukrainian are very similar. Ukrainian scientists compared the number of common root words in dictionaries of different Slavic languages. There were determined about 500 such words in each language.

Do people in Belarus speak Polish?

This unusual situation arose because the Poles in Belarus live mostly in the Belarusian-speaking parts of the country, whereas Russian now dominates in Minsk and most of eastern Belarus. Very few Belarusian Poles use Polish in everyday life.

How many Belarusians are there in Poland?

The Belarusian minority in Poland is composed of 47,000 people according to the Polish census of 2011. This number decreased in the last decades from over 300,000 due to an active process of assimilation. Most of them live in the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

Is Polish easier than Russian?

Although both Polish vs Russian are Slavic languages, their writing systems are completely different. Polish uses Latin letters, just like English. This makes Polish a much much easier language to learn than Russian. Russian on the other hand uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

What language did they speak in Belarus?

Russian
The majority speak Belarusian, and most also speak either Russian or Ukrainian. As well as Russian and Ukrainian, other minority languages spoken include Polish and Yiddish. Approximately 13\% of the Belarusian population are native speakers of Russian, 3\% of Ukrainian and 4\% of Polish.

Does Belarusian speak Russian?

Russian is one of the two official languages of Belarus (the other being Belarusian). Being dominant in the media, education and other areas of public life, Russian is de facto the main language of the country.