Editing Belarusian language (section)

== Alphabet ==
{{main |Belarusian alphabet}}
The Belarusian alphabet is a variant of the [[Cyrillic script]], which was first used as an alphabet for the [[Old Church Slavonic]] language. The modern Belarusian form was defined in 1918, and consists of thirty-two letters. Before that, Belarusian had also been written in the [[Belarusian Latin alphabet]] (Łacinka / Лацінка), the [[Belarusian Arabic alphabet]] (by [[Lipka Tatars]]) and the [[Hebrew alphabet]] (by [[Belarusian Jews]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://omniglot.com/writing/belarusian.htm |title=Belarusian language, alphabet and pronunciation |website=Omniglot.com |access-date=2017-01-10}}</ref> The [[Glagolitic script]] was used, sporadically, until the 11th or 12th century.

There are several systems of [[romanization of Belarusian]] written texts. The [[Belarusian Latin alphabet]] is rarely used.