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In what parts of Ukraine is Ukrainian spoken?

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This map is mostly accurate, but heavily simplifies both intraregional differences and ignores societal norms of using languages. To answer this question I would dwell into 350 years history of the language question in Ukraine. read more

Ukrainian language is a cornerstone of identity of Ukrainian nationalist. Similarly to Baltic countries and unlike most countries, there are not much of history and achievements that can be separated from other countries as for the most of the history, Ukraine was a part of bigger entities as Kievan Rus', Poland, Austria and Russia. read more

The Constitution declares Ukrainian language as the state language of the country, while other languages spoken in Ukraine are guaranteed constitutional protection. The Ukrainian language was adopted as the state language by the Law on Languages adopted in Ukrainian SSR in 1989; Russian was specified as the language of communication with the other republics of Soviet Union. read more

In the history of literary language are two main periods: the old Ukrainian language (XIV - the middle of the XVIII century) and modern Ukrainian language (from the end of the XVIII century). Simply put, and the Ukrainian and Belarusian and modern Russian language emerged from one language. for each of those languages influenced by various neighbors. read more

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