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Classification and Dialects
White Ruthenian is an Eastern Germanic language spoken in the White Ruthenian Commonwealth, commonly called White Ruthenia.

Writing System
The White Ruthenian Cyrillic script has a lot of orthographical particularities due to conservative spelling :
 * The letter A is pronounced /a/, if stressed. If unstressed, it becomes reduced to /ɐ/, e.g. : aвга (=eye) /'awgɐ/
 * The letter B is pronounced as /w/, if it is followed by a consonant, e.g. : aв г а (=eye) /'awgɐ/
 * The letter Г is pronounced as /v/ followed by the letter O, e.g. : Григ о ра (=Gregor) /grivɐrɐ/
 * The letters Е and И palatalize "automatically" the preceeding consonant, e.g. хн и го (=book) /xɲivɐ/
 * The letter E is pronounced /i/, if unstressed, e.g. : дяскеў (=teacher) /djasciw/
 * The letter Л is pronounced /w/, it is followed by a consonant or the vowel A, O and У, e.g. : вул ф а (=wolf) /vuwfɐ/
 * The letter O is pronounced /ɐ/, if unstressed, e.g. : хниго (=book) /'xɲivɐ/
 * The letter У is pronounced /ɯ/, if it is in final position, e.g. : хвитрутенску (=White Ruthenian language) /xvjitrutjinskɯ/
 * The letter Ў standing for /w/ is only used for /w/ in final position, e.g. : дяскеў (=teacher) /djasciw/
 * The letter Ъ indicates that the letters Е and И do not palatalize the preceeding consonant, e.g. : объ е цѣнко (=promise) /ɐbitsjɛnkɐ/
 * The letter Ъ may stand for the phoneme /ɐ/, mostly with prefixes ending in the same consonant as the initial word begins, e.g. : с ъ с евѫ (=to see - perfective) /sɐsjɛvɐ/
 * The letter Ь is only used to indicate palatalization with the letter O, e.g. : гасть о (=guest) /gastjɐ/
 * The letter Ѫ stands for the phoneme /ɐ/ and has a purely morphological role (it is an archaism, having been pronounced /ã/), e.g. : съсевѫ (=to see - perfective) /sɐsjɛvɐ/
 * The letter Ѣ stands for the phoneme /jɛ/ and has a purely etymological role (it is an archaism, having been pronounced /æ/), e.g. : объецѣнко (=promise) /ɐbitsjɛnkɐ/

Nouns
Nouns in White Ruthenian are highly declined. They may be singular or plural, feminine, neuter or masculine. They may be put in cases depending on their function in the sentence, as follows : nominative, vocative, accusative, dative, genitive, partitive and locative.

First Declension -a
The First Declension is inferred through the nominative singular ending -a. All nouns of the First Declension are either masculine or neuter. There is no rule that would help memorizing, which nouns of the First Declension are masculin or neuter. They must be learnt by heart.