Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia has not only killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians and ruined much of the country's infrastructure since the start of the ...

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was "gobsmacked" by ...

Victor Yanukovych‘s Party of the Regions is pushing for a referendum on granting Russian official status as a national language, in addition to Ukrainian. Taras of Ukrainiana points out the ...

LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, Svitlana Panova spoke her native Russian without giving it much thought. But now, she has lost her home to Russia twice — fleeing Crimea after Russia's ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

More people are taking time to study Ukrainian as the Russia-Ukraine war continues. Duolingo, a popular language learning app, reports that it saw a 577% global increase in Ukrainian language learners ...

ODESA – When Russia invaded on Feb. 24, it immediately triggered a surge of patriotism in Ukraine that included a push for people to make more use of the nation’s official language: Ukrainian. Signs ...

Last December, the Ukrainian Parliament voted in favor of a bill on multiple citizenship. It had been discussed periodically before Russia's full-scale invasion, but in a slightly different context ...

A third of Ukrainians have called Russian their mother tongue. Russian statues and cultural markers abound. Are these influences inherently toxic?... LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, ...