In Ukraine the Ukrainian language is replacing Russian. More and more politicians understand that the assertion of Ukrainian is a practical thing and the language is becoming a political instrument.
About this in the comments OBOZREVATEL said professor, doctor of philological sciences, linguist Bogdan Anzhyuk… He notes that the Ukrainian language is not bad at linguistic subordination.
“Ukrainian politicians understand more and more that the approval of the Ukrainian language is not a matter of sentimentality, it is a practical thing. She is useful to them even in selfish interests. We left the sentimental paradigm, when it was poetic lines: “Mova is born, the word is born, who you are forgotten.” This has moved into a paradigm of purely political instruments, and this is good for Ukraine. Because now these two moments work synergistically and are capable of bringing Ukraine to the situation that exists in the Czech Republic in a historically short period – the Czech language dominates categorically, “Azhnyuk said.
According to him, if there is political will, social forces and national solidarity, then the ecology of the language improves.
“If we compare Ukraine with Ireland and Belarus this is one picture, but with Lithuania and the Czech Republic it is a different picture. Prague a century ago was all German-speaking, Vilnius was Polish-speaking. Ukraine is somewhere in the middle of these parameters, “the linguist added.
As reported OBOZREVATEL, after January 16, when all the service sector in Ukraine switched to the state language, citizens began to write complaints about violations en masse. And in some cities huge scandals erupted due to the fact that Article 30 of the Law of Ukraine “On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language” is not observed.
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