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Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is the language of the Ukrainian people and is found mainly in Ukraine. It is one of the working languages of the UN. There are more than 40 million Ukrainian speakers. The language belongs to the Eastern group of the Slavic languages. The modern dialects of Ukrainian fall into three main dialects: Northern, South Western and South Eastern (which formed the basis of literary Ukrainian). The oldest examples of literary language are documents from the 14^th Century. After inheriting Old Russian script, in the 14^th-15^th Centuries Ukrainian developed the traditions of the Kievan Rus although it was subjected to the strong influence of local dialects. From the end of the 15^th Century the first attempts were made to bring literary language closer to spoken Ukrainian language; in the 16^th Century the first translations of religious books into Ukrainian appeared (The Peresopnytsia Gospels, 1556-61; The Krekhiv Apostle, 1560). Two types of literary language were formed - simple language and slavenorossky. At the end of 16^th Century – first half of the 17^th Century significant agonistic works appeared in Ukrainian literature, chronicles were compiled and fiction writing developed. Meletius Smotrytsky’s grammar book (1619) and Pamvo Berynda’s dictionary (1627) had a great influence on the standardization of the Ukrainian language. The reunification of Ukraine and Russia (1654) helped to form a closer relationship between Ukrainian and Russian; it had a positive impact on the literary development of the language and brought it closer towards spoken Ukrainian. In the 17^th Century to the first half of the 18^th Century literary Ukrainian was used in all genres of writing. Works of fiction began to appear in folk and colloquial language (Ivan Nekrashevich). By the beginning of the 19^th Century (The Aeneid written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky in 1798 etc.), folk and colloquial language had gained a firm foothold in literature. The works of Taras Shevchenko were of fundamental importance in forming the modern Ukrainian language. During the Czarist regime the Ukrainian language was subjected to restrictions and an official ban. It was only after 1917 the all the conditions were set in place for the full development of literary language.