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Prevalence of Polish or Ukrainian language in Galicia in 1910. The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire changed everything: the native languages of most populations in the Empire, including Ruthenian, were accorded official status, and all laws in the Danubian monarchy would be published in these languages from 1 October 1849 onwards. [47]
Of these, 48.8% listed Ukrainian as their native language. [11] In the Ukrainian SSR there was a Polish Autonomous District#Marchlewszczyzna, near Zhytomyr, created in 1926, but it was disbanded in 1935 and its Polish inhabitants were either murdered or deported to Kazakhstan.
A March 2010 poll [15] by Research & Branding Group showed that 65% considered Ukrainian as their native language and 33% Russian. This poll also showed the standard of knowledge of the Russian language (free conversational language, writing and reading) in current Ukraine is higher (76%) than the standard of knowledge of the Ukrainian language ...
The Ukrainian language in the Second Polish Republic according to the 1921 census Geographic distribution of the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire according to ...
1924 – law of the Republic of Poland on limiting the use of the Ukrainian language in the administration, judiciary, education subservient to the Polish lands. [21] 1924 – Kingdom of Romania law on the obligations of all the "Romanians" who "lost their mother language," to educate children only in Romanian schools. [21]
Polish-Ukrainian military parade in Kyiv in 1920 after the capture of the city by allied Polish and Ukrainian forces from the Soviets. The next stage would be the relations in the years 1918–1920, in the aftermath of World War I, which saw both the Polish–Ukrainian War and the Polish-Ukrainian alliance.
The Polish influence on Ukrainian is particularly marked on western Ukrainian dialects in western Ukraine, which for centuries was under Polish cultural domination. [ 90 ] [ 23 ] [ 77 ] [ 91 ] There are a substantial number of Polish words which officially became part of Yiddish, once the main language of European Jews .
His invasion has instead made speaking Ukrainian a global symbol of defiance. For centuries, the Ukrainian language was overshadowed by its Russian cousin. That's changing