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It refers to speakers of both the local Canadian Ukrainian dialect and Standard Ukrainian. Most Ukrainian Canadians are assimilated to the North American majority and speak English . In the nomenclature of Canadian and Quebec language politics , this makes them Anglophones , but some Ukrainian Canadians may also be Francophones ( French-speakers ).
A speaker of Ukrainian, recorded at Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm. Ukrainian (українська мова, ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔʋɐ]) is one of the East Slavic languages in the Indo-European languages family, and it is spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians.
In November 2016, a new rule came into force requiring Ukraine's radio stations to play a quota of Ukrainian-language songs each day. The law also requires TV and radio broadcasters to ensure 60% of programs such as news and analysis are in Ukrainian. [22] In September 2017, Ukraine instituted a similar policy on languages in public education.
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [b] Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova [c] to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.
Canadian Ukrainian was widely spoken from the beginning of Ukrainian settlement in Canada in 1892 until the mid-20th century, when the number of its speakers started gradually declining. [1] Today the number of native speakers of Canadian Ukrainian is significantly lower than its peak in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
During the build-up to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian speakers in the Donbas region. Ukraine fought a war against Russian proxy forces in the Donbas War from 2014 to 2022. Russia's president Vladimir Putin used this claim of genocide to justify the invasion of Ukraine. There is no evidence to ...
Percentage of native speakers of Russian from the 2001 census. Russian was a regional language in 13 regions (shaded) with 10% or higher before the repeal of the 2012 languages law. [8] Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine, the Russian language has dwindled. In 2001 it remained one of the two most used languages ...
Geographical distribution of Ukrainian speakers; Language policy in Ukraine; Law of Ukraine "On protecting the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language" List of Ukrainian-language writers; Lviv Chronicle