Ukrainian is the Slavic language of Kyiv. Speak Ukrainian, a Ukrainian phrase, Ukrainian and Russian.
It is an East Slavic language, closest to Belarusian, and it is written in Cyrillic with letters Russian does not use. It was suppressed repeatedly under Russian and Soviet rule, and use of it has grown sharply since 2014. Note that it is also the adjective for anything of Ukraine.
1adjectiveukrainianOf the Slavic language of Kyiv.
“She is taking Ukrainian lessons so that she can talk with her grandmother.”
ukrainian is a language.
Ukrainian comes from Ukraine + ian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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