WEST POLESSIAN LANGUAGE

This language can be considered that unknown relative that you would see only whilst rare family parties 😵‍💫 West Polessian is an Eastern Slavic language, which is spoken in Southwestern Belarus (Brest Region) and Northwestern Ukraine (Volhynia). Some people consider this language a Belarusian dialect, some Ukrainian one and others a separate language. In the XIX century Franz Savič has written poems in this language. Ivan Kuprin had used some Polessian dialectisms in his works. According to data online West Polessian is spoken by approximately 11 thousands people. Moreover, linguists started to form the Standard language in 1988. In the picture I've attached above you can see its alphabet.