乌克兰语英文简介

Mova——tse dusha narodu （The language is the soul of the people）. For Ukrainians, the proverb is indeed rooted in truth.

　　Centuries of subjugation and oppression by neighbouring conquerors and imperialists took their land and liberty but not their language which remains a strong symbol of Ukrainian national identity.

　　Since independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, the language has experienced a revival and rebirth in Ukraine and was named the official language of the Ukrainian Republic after the declaration of statehood on August 24. The Union's policies of Russification repressed and restricted but did not destroy.

　　Ukrainian, together with Russian and Belarussian, belongs to the eastern group of the Slavic family of Indo-European languages.

　　Called the most ancient living Slavic language, it is said to the one most closely related to Old Church Slavic, the pre-modern literary language used by all Slavs.

　　Unique syntactic, morphological and phonological features characterize and separate it from the other East Slavic languages.

　　The Ukrainian alphabet is Cyrillic but differs slightly from the Russian and Belarussian languages which are also written in modified Cyrillic script.

　　The language is richly inflected, employing a system of seven cases （nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental, locative） in which nouns, adjectives and most pronouns decline in the singular and plural, marking the difference between