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In 2006, there were an estimated 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian ancestry, [17] giving Canada the world's third-largest Ukrainian population, behind Ukraine and Russia. Outside of these, there are also large Ukrainian diaspora communities in Poland, the United States, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Argentina.
Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, one of many based on the Cyrillic alphabet. [131] The language is a lineal descendant of the colloquial Old East Slavic language of the medieval state of Kievan Rus' , which first split into Ruthenian and Russian .
Large ethnic Russian (the largest ethnic minority in the country), Romanian (including Moldovans), Bulgarian and Hungarian minorities exist in Ukraine, and Romania and Hungary have striven for the minority rights of the minorities they respectively represent. [2]
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest European country [b] after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [c] [10] Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova [d] to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.
Romani children in Vinnytsia. Ukraine is a multi-ethnic country that was formerly part of the Soviet Union. [1] [2] [3] Valeriy Govgalenko argues that racism and ethnic discrimination has arguably been a largely fringe issue in the past, but has had a climb in social influence due to ultra-nationalist parties gaining attention in recent years. [4]
Ukrainian language was used in publications, schooling, and many ethnic Ukrainians were made literate. Many ethnic Ukrainians also moved to the cities, which, in the south and west, had previously been Russian in culture. This led to a renewal of the Ukrainian national identity that expanded to most of Soviet Ukraine.
The Ukrainian word nehr (Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: nègre, lit. ' Negro ', itself a nativized loan from the Spanish : negro and the Portuguese : negro . [ 5 ]
When Saint Petersburg was the capital during the Russian Empire era, it attracted people from many nations including Ukraine. The Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko and Dmytro Bortniansky spent most of their lives in Saint Petersburg. Ivan Mazepa, carrying out the orders of Peter I, was responsible for sending many Ukrainians to help build St ...