Editing Belarusian language (section)

=== Historical ===
* ''Byelorussian'' (also spelled ''Belorussian'', ''Bielorussian'') – derived from the Russian-language name of the country "Byelorussia" ({{langx|ru|Белоруссия|Belorussiya|[[White]] [[Russia]]}}), used officially (in the [[Russian language]]) in the times of the [[USSR]] (1922–1991) and, later, in the [[Russia|Russian Federation]]{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}.
* ''White Russian''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marples |first1=David R. |title=Motherland : Russia in the 20th century |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9781317873860 |pages=57–58}}</ref> or ''White Ruthenian'' (and its equivalents in other languages) – literally, a word-by-word translation of the parts of the composite word ''Belarusian''. The term "White Ruthenian" with reference to language has appeared in English-language texts since at least 1921. The oldest one, [[Latin]] term "Albae Russiae, Poloczk dicto" is recorded in 1381.<ref>
{{cite book
 |author1              = National Polish Committee of America
 |title                = Polish Encyclopaedia
 |year = 1921
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=PmxpAAAAMAAJ
 |volume               = 2
 |location             = Geneva
 |publisher            = Atar
 |publication-date     = 1921
 |page                 = 788
 |access-date          = 19 February 2022
 |quote                = At the last scholastic census of 1911, the children of the people declared their language to be Polish, and when their Russian masters refused to fill the census-forms in this manner, and wrote 'Language: White Ruthenian' instead of 'Polish language', the children's parents protested and demanded the correction of the census-forms [...].
}} 
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