The Institute for the Ukrainian Language ( uk, Інститут української мови) of the
NAS of Ukraine is a research organization in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
created to do thorough studying of the
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lan ...
. It is the Ukrainian
coordinating center of research issues in the Ukrainian language. An activity of importance to the Institute is to consolidate the Ukrainian language as the official language in the lingual space of Ukraine, to reach the lingual harmony in the life of present-day civil society.
Institute for the Ukrainian language was formed in 1991 and is located at the building of the
Institute of History of Ukraine
Institute of History of Ukraine is a research institute in Ukraine that is part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine department of history, philosophy and law and studies a wide spectrum of problems in history of Ukraine. The institute ...
on
Hrushevsky Street, in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
Kyi ...
. Director of the institute is a doctor of philology, professor
Pavlo Hrytsenko who is assisted by a
corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, doctor of philology, professor Vasyl Nimchuk, a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, doctor of philology, professor Ivan Vyhovanets, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, doctor of philology, professor Svitlana Yermolenko.
Core activities
The main delineated activity is to research the Ukrainian language as a social, structural, historical, regional national-and-cultural phenomenon.
Directions of the Ukrainian language investigations:
* social status, functions;
* structure of standard language system – vocabulary, grammar, standardization and codifications on every language level;
* social, professional and regional differentiation;
* origin traces and development history;
* contacts with other languages in different periods;
* forming and dynamics of Ukrainian onomastics;
* development of terminology subsystems.
A lot of institute projects were implemented in cooperation with specialists from other countries. Institute workers are studying the Ukrainian dialects within the international research projec
«The Slavic Linguistic Atlas» collaborating with institutions of academies of all the Slavic countries and Germany. They also cooperate with scientists from European countries within a project «The Linguistic Atlas of Europe» (Prof. Pavlo Hrytsenko). Some research workers of the Institute were co-executors of a project by International Committee of Slavists «Najnowsze dzieje języków slowiańskich» (Opole, Poland). As a result is a research « Ukrainska mova 1945-1995» (1999) (Prof. Svitlana Yermolenko).
Publishing
Another core activity is publishing of science and popular science periodicals:
* "Ukrainian language" ( uk, Українська мова), a theoretical science journal for issue in all linguistic branches of Ukrainian language;
* "Culture of a word" ( uk, Культура слова), a popular science journal for issues in language standardizations and stylistics;
* "Lexicography Bulletin" ( uk, Лексикографічний бюлетень), a science journal for issues in lexicography and lexicology;
* "Studies in Onomastics and Etymology" ( uk, Студії з ономастики та етимології), a proceeding for issues in onomastics and etymology;
* "Terminology Bulletin" ( uk, Термінологічний вісник), a science journal for issues in terminology.
References
Home pageDepartment of Scientific Terminology of the Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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Ukrainian language
Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
1991 establishments in Ukraine
NASU department of literature, language and art studies
Universities and colleges in Kyiv
Research institutes in Kyiv
Ukrainian studies journals
Language regulators