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| - | + | Ukrainian is a language that is related to Russian and Belarusian. This language is part of the East-Slavic language family sub-group of the Slavic languages. Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine. It has around 47 million speakers worldwide and can be heard in several countries such as Croatia, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia and Russia. The writing system used for this language is the Cyrillic alphabet. | |
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| + | A census taken in the Russian Empire in the year 1897 showed that there were around 22,380,550 Ukrainian speakers in the whole empire, the most of which were in Ukraine and Belarus. Other regions that had a significant number of Ukrainian speakers were Caucasus (1,300,000) and Siberia (225,000). | ||
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| + | There are many theories concerning how Ukrainian came into being. One of these theories was formulated by Mikhail Lomonosov in the 18th century. His theory was that there was a common language spoken by all East Slavic people, but due to certain influences from Polish and Turkish the Ukrainian language evolved differently from the Russian language that had been influenced by Finno-Ugric languages. This theory was criticized by Mykhailo Maxymovych who believed that Polish was not such a strong factor in this process due to the fact that all Slavic languages share some Polish words since many originated from the Proto-Slavic language. One theory that was mutually accepted later on (20th century) is that there was a common language from which Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian evolved and that there is no obvious driving force that made these changes possible. This view however is not very popular in Ukraine, where scholars like Stepan Smal-Stotsky, Ivan Ohienko, Olena Kurylo, and others state that the Ukrainian language evolved from tribal dialects of Eastern Slavic tribes that migrated to today’s territory of Ukraine (this theory does not recognize the common ancestor of the three languages: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian). | ||
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| + | Ukrainian literature can be divided into stages: the first would be old Ukrainian (12th to 14th centuries), middle Ukrainian (14th to 18th | ||
| + | centuries) and modern Ukrainian (18th century to the present day). Some of the most important historical persons that played a great part in the development of the written Ukrainian language are: Hryhorrii Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Mykola Kostomarov, and Ivan Franko. | ||
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| + | The use of the Ukrainian language is increasing steadily in recent years due to the fact that it has escaped from strong Russian influence. However there are territories in the South-Eastern part of Ukraine where Russian is still used as the primary language. | ||
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Ukrainian is a language that is related to Russian and Belarusian. This language is part of the East-Slavic language family sub-group of the Slavic languages. Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine. It has around 47 million speakers worldwide and can be heard in several countries such as Croatia, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia and Russia. The writing system used for this language is the Cyrillic alphabet.
A census taken in the Russian Empire in the year 1897 showed that there were around 22,380,550 Ukrainian speakers in the whole empire, the most of which were in Ukraine and Belarus. Other regions that had a significant number of Ukrainian speakers were Caucasus (1,300,000) and Siberia (225,000).
There are many theories concerning how Ukrainian came into being. One of these theories was formulated by Mikhail Lomonosov in the 18th century. His theory was that there was a common language spoken by all East Slavic people, but due to certain influences from Polish and Turkish the Ukrainian language evolved differently from the Russian language that had been influenced by Finno-Ugric languages. This theory was criticized by Mykhailo Maxymovych who believed that Polish was not such a strong factor in this process due to the fact that all Slavic languages share some Polish words since many originated from the Proto-Slavic language. One theory that was mutually accepted later on (20th century) is that there was a common language from which Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian evolved and that there is no obvious driving force that made these changes possible. This view however is not very popular in Ukraine, where scholars like Stepan Smal-Stotsky, Ivan Ohienko, Olena Kurylo, and others state that the Ukrainian language evolved from tribal dialects of Eastern Slavic tribes that migrated to today’s territory of Ukraine (this theory does not recognize the common ancestor of the three languages: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian).
Ukrainian literature can be divided into stages: the first would be old Ukrainian (12th to 14th centuries), middle Ukrainian (14th to 18th
centuries) and modern Ukrainian (18th century to the present day). Some of the most important historical persons that played a great part in the development of the written Ukrainian language are: Hryhorrii Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Mykola Kostomarov, and Ivan Franko.
The use of the Ukrainian language is increasing steadily in recent years due to the fact that it has escaped from strong Russian influence. However there are territories in the South-Eastern part of Ukraine where Russian is still used as the primary language.
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