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Southwestern dialects [1] [2]; Name Description Volhynian-Podilian dialects Podilian []: Spoken on the territory of Podolia, in the southern parts of the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi oblasts, in the northern part of the Odesa Oblast, and in the adjacent districts of the Cherkasy Oblast, the Kirovohrad Oblast and the Mykolaiv Oblast.
Ukrainian falls within the Cyrillic (U+0400 to U+04FF) and Cyrillic Supplementary (U+0500 to U+052F) blocks of Unicode. The characters in the range U+0400–U+045F are basically the characters from ISO 8859-5 moved upward by 864 positions. In the following table, Ukrainian letters have titles indicating their Unicode information and HTML entity.
A dialect is a territorial, professional or social variant of a standard literary language. In Ukrainian there are 3 major dialectical groups - the south-western group, south-eastern group and the northern dialects. In recent times there have been attempts to categorise some of the Ukrainian dialects into separate languages.
Ethnologue lists 40 minority languages and dialects in Ukraine; nearly all are native to the former Soviet Union. As a result of legislation entitled the "Bill on the principles of the state language policy", which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in August 2012, languages spoken by at least 10% of an oblast 's population were made possible to ...
A defining characteristic of the Northern dialects is archaic vocalism of stressed vowels, or, in the case of letters "о" and "е", the usage of monopthongs when stressed. The letter "а" also acquires a sound similar to standard Ukrainian "е" when not stressed and preceded by a palatised consonant. [2]
The exact origins of the Southeastern dialects is a matter of some debate. Vsevolod Hantsov [] and Olena Kurylo argued that they originated from speakers of the other two dialects during the Ukrainian settlement of the Wild Fields [], while Leonid Bulakhovskyi [] and Fedot Zhylko [] have asserted that the Southeastern dialects directly descend from the Polanians.
In contrast to Southeastern, which is the literary standard of Ukrainian within Ukraine, Southwestern is common within the Ukrainian diaspora, much of which comes from Western Ukraine. [1] The Southwestern dialects contain more archaisms than the Southeastern dialects, but do not use the same archaic vowel system as the Northern dialects.
The term is derived from the Ukrainian term balakaty (Ukrainian: балакати), which colloquially means "to talk", "to chat". Some linguists characterize Balachka vernacular as a dialect or group of dialects. Balachka does not appear as a separate language on any language codes. Nevertheless, some Cossacks consider it to be a separate ...