What is Belarusians?
{{Infobox ethnic group | native_name = {{lang|be|беларусы}} | native_name_lang = be | languages = [[Belarusian]] | religions = [[Eastern Orthodox]] | related_groups = [[Russians]], [[Ukrainians]], [[Poles]] }} '''Belarusians''' are an [[East Slavs|East Slavic]] [[ethnic group]]. Most live in [[Belarus]], and smaller communities live in [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Latvia]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Moldova]], and others. According to population census of 2019, there were 7,990,719<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Statistics Committee presents data on ethnic|url=https://belarus24.by/en/news/society/national-statistics-committee-presents-data-on-ethnic-/|access-date=2022-11-11|website=TV channel «Belarus 24»|archive-date=2022-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111063303/https://belarus24.by/en/news/society/national-statistics-committee-presents-data-on-ethnic-/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Belarusians in Belarus. About 600,000 [[United States|Americans]] have Belarusian ancestry.<ref>{{cite book |title=Belarus at the Crossroads |url=https://archive.org/details/belarusatcrossro0000unse |isbn=978-0-87003-172-4|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]] |year=1999|author=Garnett, Sherman W.}}</ref> == Language == About 70% of Belarusians speak [[Russian language|Russian]] at home, while only 26% speak [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]] at home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/perepic/2009/vihod_tables/5.11-0.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018221300/http://belstat.gov.by/homep/ru/perepic/2009/vihod_tables/5.11-0.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-18 }}</ref> == Notable Belarusians == {{div col|colwidth=16em}} * [[Svetlana Alexievich]] * [[Victoria Azarenka]] * [[Ryhor Baradulin]] * [[Vasil Bykaŭ]] * [[Barys Kit|Boris Kit]] * [[Olga Korbut]] * [[Yanka Kupala]] * [[Igor Luchenok]] * [[Alexander Lukashenko]] * [[Max Mirnyi]] * [[Alexander Rybak]