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Volhynian Dialect
Volhynian dialect () is a dialect of Ukrainian language spoken around the historical region of Volhynia in the northern half of western Ukraine. It belongs to the Southwestern group of Ukrainian dialects. Territory and subdivisions The territory where Volhynian dialect is spoken borders Western Polesian and Central Polesian dialect in the north, Middle Dnieper dialect in the east and Upper Dniestrian and Podolian dialect in the south. Its spread in the west is generally limited by the Ukrainian-Polish border. Volhynian dialect can be divided into northern and southern subdialects approximately along the line Horokhiv - Shepetivka - Berdychiv, as well as into eastern and western subdialects along the line of Styr river. Northern varieties share many common elements with Polesian dialects, southern varieties - with Podolian and Dniestrian dialects. Western Volhynian subdialects have many similarities with Dniestrian varieties, and some linguists classify them as a separate d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podolian Dialect
Podolian or Podillian dialect () is a dialect of Ukrainian language spoken in the historical region of Podolia (, ''Podillia'') in central-western areas of Ukraine. It is usually classified as part of Southwestern Ukrainian dialects and is the easternmost dialect in the group. History Podolian dialect formed in the historical lands of the Kievan Rus, Rus' Principality of Terebovlia and the latter Podolian Voivodeship, Podolian and Bratslav Voivodeships of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Main features of the dialect were first described by Ivan Vahylevych in 1845. Area The territory where Podolian dialect is spoken covers the southern parts of Khmelnytskyi oblast, Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia oblast, Vinnytsia regions, western parts of Cherkasy oblast, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad oblast, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv oblast, Mykolaiv regions, as well as northern parts of Odesa oblast, Odesa region. This area borders Southwestern Ukrainian dialects (Dniestrian Ukrainian dialect, Dniestrian, Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperative Mood
The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed. It is usually found only in the present tense, second person. They are sometimes called ''directives'', as they include a feature that encodes directive force, and another feature that encodes modality of unrealized interpretation. An example of a verb used in the imperative mood is the English phrase "Go." Such imperatives imply a second-person subject (''you''), but some other languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's (do something)" or "let them (do something)" (the forms may alternatively be called cohortative and jussive). Imperative mood can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation . It is one of the irrealis moods. Formation Imperative mood is often expressed using special conjugated verb forms. Like other finite verb forms, imperatives often inflect for person and nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ukrainian Dialects
The Northern Ukrainian dialects (), also called the Polesian dialects (), are one of the three main dialect groups of the Ukrainian language, along with Southeastern and Southwestern. Northern Ukrainian is a transitional dialect to the Belarusian language, which is located to the north. A defining characteristic of the Northern dialects is archaic vocalism of stressed vowels, or, in the case of letters "" and "", the usage of monopthongs when stressed. The letter "" also acquires a sound similar to standard Ukrainian "" when not stressed and preceded by a palatised consonant. The northern dialects share a simplified morphology with the Southeastern dialects, which they played a critical role in forming. Some more northwestern dialects, located in Podlachia, however, lack this simplified morphology. In contrast to the Southeastern dialects, which form Ukrainian's literary standard within Ukraine, and the Southwestern dialects, which are the literary standard of the Ukrainian di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Styr
The Styr (; ; ) is a right tributary of the Pripyat, with a length of . Its basin area is and located in the historical region of Volhynia. The Styr begins near Brody, Lviv Oblast, then flows into Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, then into Brest Region of Belarus where it finally flows into the Pripyat. Notable settlements located on the river are Lutsk, Staryi Chortoryisk and Varash. History During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising, the Battle of Berestechko took place in 1651 on the river between armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Cossacks of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. During 1915–1916, the Styr river was the front line between the Austro-Hungarian and Imperial Russian armies. The river was also a barrier to the German invasion on June 22, 1941, during Operation Barbarossa on the South-Western Front. Tributaries * Left: Radostavka, Sudylivka, Chornohuzka, , Serna, Liutytsia, Okinka, Richytsia, Zhyduvka, Omelianyk * Right: Ikva, Slonivka, Pliashivka, Bol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berdychiv
Berdychiv (, ) is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Berdychiv Raion within the oblast. It is south of the administrative center of the oblast, Zhytomyr. Its population is approximately The area has seen various cultural influences and political changes over time, from its early settlement by the Chernyakhov culture to its position within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later, the Russian Empire. Berdychiv was an important trading and banking center in its heyday, but the town became impoverished after the banking industry moved to Odesa in the mid-19th century. Berdychiv was also a significant center of Jewish history, with a large Jewish population and an important role in the development of Hasidism. However, during World War II, the Nazis and their collaborators brutally massacred tens of thousands of Jews in Berdychiv. Before the The Holocaust, Holocaust, about 80 percent of the town’s population was Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepetivka
Shepetivka (, ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city located on the Huska River in Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Oblast, province) in western Ukraine. Shepetivka is the Capital (political), administrative center of Shepetivka Raion (Raion, district). It hosts the administration of Shepetivka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Shepetivka is an important railway junction with five intersecting transit routes. It is located 100 km away from Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, Khmelnytskyi, the oblast's capital. The city is located near historic city of Iziaslav, Ukraine, Iziaslav, the center of Ruthenian Zasławski princely estate. History A settlement called Shepetovka, belonging to the prince Ivan Zasławski, Zaslavsky, was first mentioned in a written document in 1594. In the 16th century Shepetivka didn't differ from other settlements of Volhynia. The settlement had a community and a windmill. It was given Magdeburg Rights at the end of the 16th century. This contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
