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[+] -10 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Dialects have names. Go back further and you'll notice the language starts out in Kiev, same as Russian, in the same era as the same language.

Again, if you live in the US, you'll have this historical revisionism fun of fascism too soon.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Lol, the differences between Ukrainian and Russian began in the 13th century, when old Ukrainian shifted /g/ to /Ι£/ and then to modern day /Ι¦/. By that logic, Germany should swallow the Netherlands because clearly Dutch and German have the same origins and are just dialects. Hell, if you go back to the 11th century, i.e. the Kievan Rus, a bunch of now distinct languages were much closer to each other.

    Ukrainian has a lot more German, Polish and Tartar loanwords than Russian. Southwestern Dialects of Ukrainian are closer to Polish than to Russian. Ukrainian has an 38% difference in Vocabulary to Russian, which is roughly the difference between Italian and Spanish. Ukrainian also preserved it's vocative case, which has disappeared from Russian. It possesses 3 different future tenses, opposed to 2 in Russian. These are two different languages

    Soviet promotion of the Ukrainian language was not an "appeasement of fascist russians", it was a reversal of Tsarist oppression. Just up until the 1930s, when the USSR again made a 180 turn on their language policies throughout its territory.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only historical revisionist here is you.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm not the one who took down the Catherine the Great statue in Odessa.

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