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Can someone who speaks Russian understand Ukrainian?
No, despite all the claims that russians and ukrainians are slavic brothers,russians won’t understand ukrainian. Btw truly slavic nations understand each other to some extent. Ukrainian can easily speak with Belorussian or Polish. Russians do not understand other slavic languages since it has little slavic roots .
Do most Ukrainians speak Ukrainian or Russian?
The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, an East Slavic language, which is the native language of 67.5\% of Ukraine’s population. Russian is the native language of 29.6\% of Ukraine’s population and the rest (2.9\%) are native speakers of other languages.
Do Russian and Ukrainian sound the same?
Russian and Ukrainian are different in pronunciation. To non-native speakers and for those not familiar with the language, they can sound the same. However, they are only roughly similar, and enough to be noticeable by people familiar with the languages. Ukranian has more soft consonants.
Does s1mple speak Russian or Ukrainian?
He speaks russian,in Ukraine most people use russian language.
Does s1mple know Russian?
What is the percentage of Russians in Ukraine who speak Russian?
2001 census showed that 95.9\% of Russians in Ukraine consider the Russian language to be native for them, 3.9\% named the Ukrainian to be their native language. The majority, 59.6\% of Ukrainian Russians were born in Ukraine.
When was the Ukrainian language adopted as the official language of Ukraine?
The Ukrainian language was adopted as the state language by the Law on Languages adopted in Ukrainian SSR in 1989; Russian was specified as the language of communication with the other republics of Soviet Union. Ukraine signed the European Charter on Regional or Minority Languages in 1996,…
Which languages are most similar to Ukrainian?
Ukrainian is the most similar to Belarusian, Polish, Czech, and some other Slavic languages. And Russian language is equally far from other Slavic languages as it is from Ukrainian.
Is Ukrainian a fake language or a real language?
There’s a lot of speculation: Some say that Ukrainian is a fake language and just a vernacular of Russian (and there’s apparently even fake evidence of that!). In order to know for sure, let’s take a closer look at these two languages and their histories.