Ukrainian language

History of Ukrainian literature

:See Ukrainian literature

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The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceeded by the Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into three stages: old Ukrainian (twelfth to fourteenth centuries), middle Ukrainian (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries), and modern Ukrainian (end of the eighteenth century to the present). Much literature has been written in the eras of old and middle Ukrainian: legal acts, polemical articles, science treatises and fiction of all sorts.

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Old East Slavic - Eighteenth century

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Influential literary figures in the development of the modern Ukrainian literature included the philosopher Hryhori Skovoroda, Mykola Kostomarov, Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky, Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka. The literary language is based on the dialect of the Poltava region, with heavy influence of the dialect spoken in the west, notably Galicia (Halychyna). For most of its history, Russian letters were used for written Ukrainian (for example, by Shevchenko). The modern Ukrainian alphabet and orthography, which introduced several distinct letters (?, ?, ?, ?) and modified usage of another (?), was developed in the late 19th century in Austrian-controlled Galicia.

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Hryhori Skovoroda - Mykola Kostomarov - Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky - Taras Shevchenko - Ivan Franko - Lesia Ukrainka - Poltava - Galicia - Ukrainian alphabet - 19th century - Austrian

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