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SOME FACTS

Ukrainian is an East Slavic language, one of three members of this language group, the other two being Russian and Belarusian. Written Ukrainian bears resemblances to these two languages, but with several notable differences. Historically, Belarusian and Ukrainian diverged from Old or Middle Ruthenian language. Spoken literary Ukrainian, however finds a closer similarity for native speakers with Slovak. Spoken Ukrainian also exhibits marked similarities to Polish vocabulary, which some attribute, in part, to an influence of Polish upon Ruthenian and Ukrainian.

History

Scholarship on the early history of the Ukrainian language was hampered by the lack of Ukrainian independence. Thus, much of the early scholarship of the language was viewed through the lens of foreign neighboring conceptions. The existence of a separate Ukrainian language was not generally accepted even 100 years ago. For instance, the 1911 Encyclop?dia Britannica called it the Little Russian dialect of the Russian language. Soviet historiography manifested an ideology of three brotherly East Slavic nations. Russian scholars tend to admit a difference between Ukrainian and Russian only at later time periods (fourteenth through 16th centuries). Some Ukrainian scholars see a divergence between the language of Halych-Volynia and the language of Novgorod-Suzdal by the 1100s. Some European and American linguists concur. During the time of the incorporation of Ruthenia (Ukraine and Belarus) into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ukrainian (Rus'ian or Ruthenian or Little Russian or Little Rusian or Malorusian) and Belarusian diverged into identifiably separate languages.

UKRAINIAN: a language of Ukraine
SIL code: UKR
ISO 639-1: uk
ISO 639-2: ukr

Population 31,058,000 in Ukraine (1993), 83% of 37,419,000 in the ethnic group (1993 Johnstone). 75% of the population is ethnic Ukrainian. Population total all countries 47,000,000 (1999 WA).

Region Western Ukraine, adjacent republics. Also spoken in 25 other countries including Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Russia (Asia), Slovakia.

Dialects NORTHWEST UKRAINIAN, SOUTHWEST UKRAINIAN, EAST UKRAINIAN.

Classification Indo-European, Slavic, East.

Comments Dialect differences are slight. Official language. Grammar. Cyrillic script. Christian. Bible 1903-1962.

Also spoken in:
Poland Language name UKRAINIAN
Population 1,500,000 in Poland.
Comments The largest minority language group in Poland. Christian. Bible 1903-1962.


Slovakia Language name UKRAINIAN
Population 100,000 in Slovakia.
Comments Christian. Bible 1903-1962.