![]() Linguistic development A schematic depiction according to genetic studies by Alena Kushniarevich Theories However, the language continued to see use throughout the country, and remained particularly strong in Western Ukraine. Russification saw the Ukrainian language banned as a subject from schools and as a language of instruction in the Russian Empire, and continued in various ways in the Soviet Union. By the 18th century, Ruthenian diverged into regional variants and the modern Ukrainian language developed in the territory of present-day Ukraine. In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the language developed into Ruthenian, where it became an official language, before a process of Polonization began in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Ukrainian is a descendent of Old East Slavic, a language spoken in the medieval state of Kievan Rus'. Additionally, spoken Ukrainian has partial intelligibility with Polish. Comparisons are often drawn to Russian, another East Slavic language, but there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian. The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU particularly by its Institute for the Ukrainian Language), the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. Ukrainian ( украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayínsʹka móva, IPA: ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily in Ukraine. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. ![]() Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Regions where Ukrainian is the language of a significant minority ![]()
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