Belarusian was not fully elaborated as a modern literary language until the early 20th century, when orthographic norms for writing it in Cyrillic were established.

• 到了20世纪初才把它当作一种现代的文学语言，以前的白俄罗斯语是不够精致的，当时才建立起用西里尔字母书写的表音规则。