<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>While people of many nationalities live in Ukraine, Ukrainians and Russians constitute the majority of its population. Territorially, the Ukrainian language is spread unevenly, which results in pronounced bilingualism and language bipolarity. The influence of the Soviet policy of the Russian language dominance is still present in Ukraine. Ukrainian prevails in the sphere of public administration and education. Russian dominates in most mass media. Under such circumstances it is important to maintain conditions for the preservation of the language identity of other ethnic minorities, which would promote the development of linguistic diversity in Ukraine.</p></abstract>

While people of many nationalities live in Ukraine, Ukrainians and Russians constitute the majority of its population. Territorially, the Ukrainian language is spread unevenly, which results in pronounced bilingualism and language bipolarity. The influence of the Soviet policy of the Russian language dominance is still present in Ukraine. Ukrainian prevails in the sphere of public administration and education. Russian dominates in most mass media. Under such circumstances it is important to maintain conditions for the preservation of the language identity of other ethnic minorities, which would promote the development of linguistic diversity in Ukraine.

Language Differentiation of Ukraine’s Population

Department of Regional Development Geography

Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics

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While people of many nationalities live in Ukraine, Ukrainians and Russians constitute the majority of its population. Territorially, the Ukrainian language is...

Language Differentiation of Ukraine’s Population

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 181 - 197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnmlp-2017-0008

Keywords
Ukraine, bilingualism and language bipolarity, language identity, linguistic diversity, territorial distribution of languages

© 2017 Yevhen Matviyishyn, Tomasz Michalski

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Language Differentiation of Ukraine’s Population

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 181 - 197

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnmlp-2017-0008

KeywordsUkraine, bilingualism and language bipolarity, language identity, linguistic diversity, territorial distribution of languages

© 2017 Yevhen Matviyishyn, Tomasz Michalski

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Ukraine, bilingualism and language bipolarity, language identity, linguistic diversity, territorial distribution of languages