Differences between Eastern and Western Ukrainian
Gene Shklar
keyboard at SHKLAR.COM
Thu Mar 11 00:18:24 UTC 2010
An excellent and fascinating reference dictionary for the language spoken in western Ukraine, at least around Lviv, is the recent book:
Лексикон Львівський: поважно і на жарт
Leksykon L'vivs'kyj: povazhno i na zhart
And if you can read Ukrainian, the first 41 pages are an essay on the changes that occurred in the language.
See http://www.inst-ukr.lviv.ua/publications/books/book/?newsid=50
ISBN 978-966-02-5342-1
You can also buy it at Kubon&Sagner
http://www.kubon-sagner.de/buch/lager/115_4.html
kuna at kubon-sagner.de
for about 33 Euros.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grover Furr" <furrg_nj at FASTMAIL.FM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:57 PM
Subject: Differences between Eastern and Western Ukrainian
Dear fellow listmembers:
Some 20+ years ago I was struggling to read some WW2-era Ukrainian
materials, with a dictionary, etc.
It seemed to me that I could perceive differences between Eastern and
Western Ukrainian. Names of the months, for example.
Western Ukrainian tended towards Polish and away from Russian (maybe
"away from Russian" was the point?). Eastern Ukrainian seemed more
Russian -- easier to read, for me (I can read Russian well).
Now I wonder what's going on in today's Ukraine, where the Eastern /
traditionally Orthodox / closer to Russia and the Western /
traditionally Uniate / closer to Poland has become an important cultural
and political issue.
What resources are there -- books, articles, even specifically
linguistic analyses -- that study the differences between Eastern and
Western Ukrainian?
Sincerely,
Grover Furr
Montclair SU
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