belarusophone

Speaking Belarusian.

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: […]

One who speaks Belarusian.

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.