SOCIOCULTURAL SPHERES OF LIFE OF THE BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF TWO STATE LANGUAGES
The Belarusian and Russian languages have equal status in the Republic of Belarus. Both of them are used in the media sphere, education and clerical work.Teaching in the institutions of general and high education is realized according to the equal number of class hours for disciplines as ‘Belarusian language', ‘Belarusian literature', ‘Russian language', ‘Russian literature'. But there is no parity of using in different types of communications between the languages. The ways of using the Belarusian in social sphere of modern Belarusian society is analyzed in this article.