The great marsh: the Pripyat basin, drained hard in the Soviet period but still a world of water, reeds and islands of dry ground. Fishing, wildfowl, mushrooms, berries, buckwheat and potato, and a speech of its own between Belarusian and Ukrainian. โ POLESIA CROSSES THREE BORDERS and not all of it is Belarusian.
Atlas โ where and when
Communities and languages
Poleshukscommunitydocumented
Languages:
Belarusian
What is recorded
Polesia is a cross-border ecological and cultural region spanning Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Not all Polesian food is Belarusian, and its peopleโs speech lies between Belarusian and Ukrainian rather than inside either.documented