RE: [Cz-L] Languages of the Ukraine

Some slight caveats. The 'Bulgarians' are actually Gagauz, who are quite a colourful Orthodox Christian people also found in Bulgaria but NOT coming from there, who nevertheless speak a Turkic language about as closely related to Turkish-of-Turkey as is Azerbaijani (i.e. about as close as Ukrainian is to Russian or Czech is to Polish, but much more different than Czech and Slovak or Ukrainian and Belarusian). The Transcarpathian Rusyns have quite a strong ethnic identity, but what they speak is almost identical to the middle of the 3 Ukrainian dialects of the high Carpathians just to the north: Lemko (extends into Poland and Slovakia), Boiko (that most similar one), and Hutzul (nearest to Cz). Many of the 'ethnic Russians' constituting a majority in Crimea will now be returned Crimean Tatars, many of whom have lost (in favour of Russian) their Turkic language - and this wasn't a single entity, but a range from another closely Turkish-like dialect to another closer to the languages of the Caucasian Karachai and Balkar peoples.

Charles Polák
mailto:charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/12/Ethnolingusitic_map_of_ukraine.png

Understanding part of the problems .
Hardy

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