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Phillip M. Carter: Long before shots were fired, a linguistic power struggle was playing out in Ukraine

Neither professional linguists nor Ukrainians have any problem thinking of Ukrainian as a separate language – it’s probably about as different from Russian as Spanish is from Portuguese. Yet Russian nationalists long sought to classify it as a dialect of Russian.

March 25, 2022 · 1 Comment

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