Language Revitalization in Ukraine: Geo-Culturally Determined Success
Year: 2012

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the successes and struggles of the ongoing language revitalization effort in Ukraine. Since the breakup of the USSR in 1991, many policies have been implemented in an effort to promote „ukrainianization ‟ of the country, which has resulted in mixed success (Pavlenko 2006). Today, more of the population is speaking Ukrainian, although this is not a phenomenon that is evenly distributed across the country; rather, the success of ukrainianization has been „geo-cultura