The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics.
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The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics.
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Ukrainian language has been in common use since the late 17th century, associated with the establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate.
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Some Ukrainian features were recognizable in the southern dialects of Old East Slavic as far back as the language can be documented.
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The Ukrainian language was formed by convergence of tribal dialects, mostly due to an intensive migration of the population within the territory of today's Ukraine in later historical periods.
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Local autonomy of both rule and Ukrainian language was a marked feature of Lithuanian rule.
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Many Ukrainian nobles were forced to learn the Polish language and convert to Catholicism during that period in order to maintain their lofty aristocratic position.
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Ukrainian culture and language flourished in the sixteenth and first half of the 17th century, when Ukraine was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, albeit in spite of being part of the PLC, not as a result.
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Many writers published works in the Romantic tradition of Europe demonstrating that Ukrainian was not merely a language of the village but suitable for literary pursuits.
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However, practice was often a different story: Ukrainian language always had to compete with Russian, and the attitudes of the Soviet leadership towards Ukrainian language varied from encouragement and tolerance to de facto banishment.
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Still it was implicitly understood in the hopes of minority nations that Ukrainian language would be used in the Ukrainian language SSR, Uzbek would be used in the Uzbek SSR, and so on.
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That led to the introduction of an impressive education program which allowed Ukrainian language-taught classes and raised the literacy of the Ukrainophone population.
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Policy even reached those regions of southern Russian SFSR where the ethnic Ukrainian language population was significant, particularly the areas by the Don River and especially Kuban in the North Caucasus.
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Soviet policy towards the Ukrainian language changed abruptly in late 1932 and early 1933, with the termination of the policy of Ukrainianization.
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Ukrainian language proudly promoted the beauty of the Ukrainian language and developed plans to expand the role of Ukrainian in higher education.
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Ukrainian language was removed after only a brief tenure, for being too lenient on Ukrainian nationalism.
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Russian Ukrainian language was the dominant vehicle, not just of government function, but of the media, commerce, and modernity itself.
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Since 1991, Ukrainian has been the official state language in Ukraine, and the state administration implemented government policies to broaden the use of Ukrainian.
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Late 20th-century Russian politicians like Alexander Lebed and Mikhail Yuryev still claimed that Ukrainian language is a Russian dialect.
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Influential literary figures in the development of modern Ukrainian language literature include the philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Mykola Kostomarov, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka.
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Ukrainian language's book was published in vernacular Ukrainian in a satirical way to avoid being censored, and is the earliest known Ukrainian published book to survive through Imperial and, later, Soviet policies on the Ukrainian language.
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Ukrainian literary language developed further when the Russian state banned the use of the Ukrainian language, prompting many of its writers to move to the western Ukrainian region of Galicia which was under more liberal Austrian rule; after the 1860s the majority of Ukrainian literary works were published in Austrian Galicia.
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In countries with significant Ukrainian populations, bands singing in the Ukrainian language sometimes reach top places on the charts, such as Enej .
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Ukrainian language is spoken by a large emigree population, particularly in Canada, the United States, and several countries of South America like Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.
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The kh of Ukrainian language poverkh has mutated into s under the influence of the soft vowel i .
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Ukrainian language is written in a version of Cyrillic, consisting of 33 letters, representing 38 phonemes; an apostrophe is used.
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Ukrainian language orthography is based on the phonemic principle, with one letter generally corresponding to one phoneme, although there are a number of exceptions.
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In 1929, Hryhorii Holoskevych published the Ukrainian language Spelling Dictionary, agreed with the full spelling produced by the State Spelling Commission and approved by the People's Commissar for Education .
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Standard Ukrainian language which is based on the Kyiv–Poltava dialect has a plethora of false friends with the standard Russian language which is based on the Moscow dialect.
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Until the 17th and 18th centuries the Ukrainians were predominantly peasants and petits bourgeois; as a result, the Ukrainian language was mostly vernacular and few earlier literary works from the period can be found.
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Ukrainian language has the following similarities and differences with other Slavic languages:.
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