Nobody calls it ukrainian, they all say "rusky" when they ask others about language.
>>220290358ukrainians mostly spoke russian before they were socially pressured into changing. i sometimes see old posts from ukrainians on the steam community and it was all russian until 4 years ago
ukrainians are the canadians of slavs
>>220290358For me, all cyrillic is just communism
>>220290358no those are two separate languages you're just confusing them because most ukranians speak russian primarily.
>>220291089I've seen the Ukrainians at work, whenever they think someone else speaks their language they always ask them if they speak rusky. I don't even know how they say Ukrainian.
>>220290824canadians are ukrainians
>>220290792Until 2014 ALL of their television was in Russian. And that can give you the sliver of the picture
>>220291378theyre just from a russian speaking partkind of like if you come across 2 french people they'll typically speak arabic between then but there's also the french language in some regions.
i remember listening to a news story a while ago interviewing a ukrainian doctor who admitted doctors don't speak ukrainian and look down on those who do as lowering themselves to a peasant tongue but this one brave guy was going to change it allstruck me as absolutely ridiculous even coming from our failed attempt at all things language revival, nobody here would look down upon the language.
>>220290824we have over 1 million Ukrainians in Canada, 4% of the population
