GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, an East Slavic language, which is the native language of 67.5% of Ukraine’s population. Ethnologue lists 40 minority languages and dialects; nearly all are native to the former Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are approximately 20 languages spoken in Ukraine. According to the 2001 census, 67% of the population speak Ukrainian and 30% speak Russian as their first language. Ukrainian, the official language, belongs with Russian and Belarusian to the East Slavic branch of the Slavic language family.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ukrainian language, formerly called Ruthenian or Little Russian (now considered pejorative), Ukrainian Ukraïns’ka mova, East Slavic language spoken in Ukraine and in Ukrainian communities in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovakia and by smaller numbers elsewhere.

Detailed explanation-4: -Genealogy of the Ukrainian People Many historic documents prove that the Ukrainian language, and Ukrainian state, appeared earlier than the Russian ones.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ukrainian language traces its origins to the Old East Slavic language of the ancient state of Kievan Rus’. The language has persisted despite the two bans by Imperial Russia and political persecution during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.