Languages spoken in Ukraine

[bm-21Lemko]

Moldavskiy - moldovian(dialect of romanian)
bolgarskiy - bulgarian
Russkiy -russian
Ukraniskiy -ukrainian
Rumanskiy -romanian
polsky - polish
uhorsky - hungarian

[bm-21Lemko]

Eastern Ukrainians tend to speak russian and Western ukrainians tend to speak Ukrainian.

Please anyone post your thought on the issue.

[V-G]

I found it interesting to travel to Kyiv from about 95 to 01, one could feel the change in language. I remember my mom and I would always get chicken from this place on Khreschatyk and the ladies there would speak Russian only the first time and then 1/2 Russian 1/2 Ukrainian. My last visit they all spoke Ukrainian by default. I found that very interesting to observe, it seemed like Ukraine was really becoming independent by reclaiming the language in the capital.

Unfortunately I did not enjoy the language spoken in villages around L'viv, too much Polish slang. Yet they were all convinced they spoke the one and only true Ukrainian... funny.

[bm-21Lemko]

Unfortunately I did not enjoy the language spoken in villages around L'viv, too much Polish slang. Yet they were all convinced they spoke the one and only true Ukrainian... funny.

Its funny that you say that. I've heard Ukrainian where they use german words. It sounds pretty funny.

I found it interesting to travel to Kyiv from about 95 to 01, one could feel the change in language. I remember my mom and I would always get chicken from this place on Khreschatyk and the ladies there would speak Russian only the first time and then 1/2 Russian 1/2 Ukrainian. My last visit they all spoke Ukrainian by default. I found that very interesting to observe, it seemed like Ukraine was really becoming independent by reclaiming the language in the capital.

Thats very interesting. I believe as time goes on, more and more people will use Ukrainian instead of Russian. I'm not too sure about the East though, they clinch pretty tightly with Russia.

[stepanstas]

Wow,

By this it seems like most of Ukraine speaks Ukrainian.

I wonder how accurate this is.

[V-G]

Lemko,

East can stay that way it is, they need to do business with the neighbor etc. The majority of the population is actually Russian (or at least 1/2 Russian)... but the capital has to speak Ukrainian, otherwise it is embarrassing, or at least should be.

Last time I was in Kyiv was 2001, I hope that by now you hear Ukrainian on the streets and in the shops as a norm and not as an exception (as was the case back in the early 90s).

Where did you hear German/Ukrainian? That would have been funny! I speak some German, not fluent but enough to get by...

[bm-21Lemko]

Stepan what are you talking about. Look at it.