The Ukrainian Language: The Heroic Story of a Language That Just Won’t Quit

🇺🇦 Ukrainian just might be the most resilient language in the world. From the Tsars to Stalin, many have tried to wipe it from the face of the Earth. But the Ukrainian language and culture continue to fight on!
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - What is Ukrainian?
1:02 - Origins
1:38 - Old Ukrainian
3:48 - The Rule of the Tsars
4:40 - “Little Russian”
6:26 - Ukrainization
7:22 - Linguistic Genocide
9:57 - Ukrainian Becomes Its Own Thing
10:35 - What’s Modern Ukrainian Like?
11:31 - Dialects
13:04 - Ukrainian Around the World
13:51 - How the Language Works
14:38 - Ukrainian Grammar
15:41 - Ukrainian Writing System
17:01 - Is Ukrainian Difficult to Learn?
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[@storylearning]

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[@victoryinhim9689]

Love your vids

[@elizabeth_777]

I want to learn Ukrainian.🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@dmitry_dev]

@@elizabeth_777 Hi. If you are going to learn Ukrainian, I could help you. I am not a teacher, but Ukrainian and russian native speaker, having conversations with you could improve my own skills in English as well.

[@Daniel_Poirot]

@@elizabeth_777 , you can also learn its history with me.

[@Goahead206]

Thanks a lot for donating, please consider Ukrainian charities (like official United24), instead of Red Cross or similar big institutions.

[@marekurbaniak1164]

I am from Poland and now I learn Ukrainian. Big thanks for this video covering the language of our neighbors and friends. Слава Україні! 💙💛

[@iaroslavakryvoshei3593]

Wish you luck with learning 💛💙

[@axathearcticfox5514]

Героям слава!

[@koeki7750]

Героям слава

[@krymskyj_jasmyn_ua]

Дякую! Героям Слава! ❤🤍💫💙💛

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

I learned some Polish in Poland this year. Bardzo dziękuję (for all of the help in hard times, Poland) ❤️

[@user-gg5qj5fo5x]

I am Ukrainian) And I really appreciate that foreigners like you tell our tragic history especially in this time of war. We’re fighting for independence right now and your support is very important for Ukrainians. Thank you❤

[@dmytrodelen]

I don’t agree that it’s tragic, it’s difficult, challenging but it’s heroic, because against all the odds we are here and we are proud

[@-ratalbas7115]

@@dmytrodelen Це дуже трагічно, як і будь-яка війна ця війна наповнена смертями, стражданнями і людським горем.

[@wom_Bat]

@@-ratalbas7115 They have a rich history of people trying to erase them, yet persevering.

[@andreitiberiovicgazdovici]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 ✊ 🇮🇹

[@user-nd5gg1cj5m]

о єба, не часто бачиш українця у коментах. Як ти там, брате?

[@br1ognloid]

I’m from France and i’m learning the Ukrainian language! Slava Ukraine!

[@Sleepyphoenix]

Nice to hear 🇺🇦🤝🏻🇫🇷

[@Pilum1000]

Gloire à libérer la Corse!😁

[@JERRY_HEIL]

How well you know the history of our country! SO IMPRESSED💙💛💪🏽 thank you for doing this for us!

[@storylearning]

A real pleasure

[@elenalysak4947]

Нічого собі! Яна, так приємно на ютубі в коментах тертися плечами із зіркою естради і шоубізнесу)

[@julianopasaran7200]

Wow, I couldn't imagine having seen you here!💞☺️

[@th-uh2oo]

If he knew the history of Ukraine, he would never say this nonsense.

[@Sleepyphoenix]

In general yes, but some nuances are wrong

[@EeOneGuy]

Wow, thank you Olly for your job!

[@Lev_DM]

Damn, you are still around

[@dann-il2lu]

Слава Украине

[@Arseniy_3333]

погоджуюсь

[@captainwatermelon1238]

Привіт Ваня і Слава Україні :)

[@Megasigman2000]

Молодець КОЗАЧЕ

[@nmdskm7319]

I'm from Ukraine and I think your work is awesome. Ukrainians and russians are not the same and our native languages as well. We want to let world know about that. Дякую.

[@storylearning]

Thank you very much!

[@georgyekimov4577]

as a urainian can you explain to me the 0:54 moment because the native languages of these countries are often from other families or did he mean the there are many ethnic speakers i dont get it. PS. stay strong We are very sorry (mostly)

[@user-bv9fw6zf4k]

​@@georgyekimov4577 There are a lot of different dialects in Ukrainian language because our country didn't have it's own statehood for many years. Ukrainian language have been developing in close relationship with languages of surrounding nations

[@georgyekimov4577]

@@user-bv9fw6zf4k thanks for the answer

[@annabackman3028]

@@user-bv9fw6zf4k In Sweden, a very tall country, the dialects in north and south sounds VERY different from each other. We also have a long border to our Nordic brother Norway. Norwegian and Swedish are very similar, and we can understand and make us understood rather easily. IF not different dialects messes it up. Along the border the Norwegians and Swedes living just across the border have more in common than with standard Norwegian (Norway has TWO similar languages, btw! A legacy from when Norway was under Danish king and flag) and standard Swedish.. I you look at Sweden on a map, you will see two rather large lakes. About (estimating!) 100km north of the largest lake, they speak an incomprehensible dialekt. In the middle of Sweden, the region around the city Östersund, a vast area called Jämtland, and the old dialect 'Jamska'. Not so many speaks like the old people in the seventies did. Luckily the people there, 'Jamtar', are proud of their special dialect, which is more like an own language. They use a lot of own words, not to be found in neither Swedish nor Norwegian. The most part of the rest is Old Norse, and the grammar is more similar to Icelandic than Sew-Nor. Or Danish for that matter. For the fun of it (some take it seriously 😂) the Jamtar have founded their own country 'Republiken Jämtland', with their own president, and 'national anthem', which is beautiful, actually. This is not preparations for a coup, it started as a stunt 1963. 😂😂 Here's 'Jämtlanssåmgen' sung a cappella by a young woman, in Jamska, not Swedish. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmaUq3eAbb2Lm8Wb

[@axisboss1654]

I’m learning Ukrainian because I have partial Ukrainian heritage, it really is an interesting language .

[@maxstepko2025]

lets be friends!!!

[@Aflapoid]

Thank you so much for showing the difficult fate of the Ukrainian language 💙💛

[@suntzu1168]

As an Ukrainian This guy is a hero, not only did he tell about Ukrainian language, he also said Kyiv and not Kiev

[@yarinajoy3602]

Yep, Kyiv it's correct name

[@Viky.A.V.]

yep, I was surprised too! Such a profound research! gotta share it with everyone.

[@vsvinchuk]

Olly had some help obviously ;) But to my knowledge, this is hands down the most accurate video on the subject of Ukrainian history and language on KZbin.

[@suntzu1168]

Wow 109 likes nice

[@Moskalhater]

But used so-called Kievan Rus name. He doesn't know that term has been invented by the Moscow historians to tie their history with the Rus state.

[@dalubwikaan161]

I want to learn Ukrainian, and I support Ukrain. Slava Ukraine

[@donniemyers192]

Thank you so much for that!

[@marinaveselovskaya4505]

And Chinese!!

[@user-jg7jb7ml3i]

Героям Слава!

[@NikusikJJ]

В чем именно Слава украины как самостоятельной страны!!?? Украина была сильна только в составе России, больше некогда..

[@suntzu1168]

@@NikusikJJ я так бачу що про Київську Русь та про Запоріжзьку Січ У вас в школах не вчать

[@miriamrojas5059]

Ви неймовірні, такий рівень підтримки... Величезна дяка всім причетним до створення цього відео💙💛

[@Daniel_Poirot]

Завітайте до мене. :)

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into a much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@irynanaumenko5586]

I am Ukrainian living in the USA. Thank you for your work done telling about the language, the history of my native country.

[@youobserver6881]

This is also true for Qazaqstan🇰🇿, which also was occupied by Russian Empire, undergone the famine, which is called in Qazaqstan “Asharshylyk“ so there were death twice as much of Ukranian deaths. Furthermere, both Ukraine and Qazaqstan were under Soviet occupation, and in 1991 both these states gained their Independence. Glory to Ukraine, qazaqs with you🇰🇿🇺🇦🇰🇿🇺🇦🇰🇿🇺🇦

[@jinochka13]

God I believe Qazaqstan and Ukraine will be free from russian terrorism, and we'll just all chill with our languages and cultures 😭

[@ilyakovtaniuk2006]

Glory to Heroes. Be safe, be free

[@tktilk3878]

Freedom ana peace for you, my friend. I can only imagine how many moskowians are coming now to your country seeking refuge and in same time telling you how to live in your own country. We also know about moskowians who live there, to our pity some of them were Ukrainians before, forgot of their origins out of convenience

[@Krilef]

Героям слава! Алга Казакстан!

[@jio5680]

We also share Shevchenko)

[@tanyaalex3767]

I am an ethnic Ukrainian, but I spoke Russian for 35 years, because my ancestors were Russified, on 24.02 I completely switched to Ukrainian. thanks for the video

[@Bzgiorno_Bzgiovanna]

Gigachad pani👍

[@valeriezaverukha433]

Ви є прикладом того, що ніколи не пізно перейти на рідну мову, навіть якщо так сталося, що все життя говорили по-російськи. Дякую Вам за Ваш вибір і Вашу свідомість!❤ Слава Україні!

[@Proidysweet]

То складно, але дуже приємно знати. Успіхів :з

[@user-cy1yg8yf7v]

Better later than never ;)

[@tanyaalex3767]

@@valeriezaverukha433 Героям Слава! Знаєте, намагалась перейти ще у 2014, але люди навколи хіхікали, та казали "не видєлуйся", був навіть конфлікт з чоловіком у магазині, де він прямо кричав, щоб я розмовляла "на нормальном язікє"... я мала пересилити їх ще тоді(( але тепер, хай ті хто залишився російськомовним соромляться.

[@JoWood2000]

I'm Polish 🇵🇱 and I'm trying to understand Ukrainian language. Of course, I remembered every Ukrainian alphabet letter. Still is not perfect but I think that I could learning Ukrainian language from Duolingo. This is beautiful language that is similar to Polish, Belarussian and Slovak. russians was trying to wipe Polish and Ukrainian from the world but their attempts was waste time and russians will always lose if they are trying to wipe any culture or any language or any nation. Our languages survived everything and they will survive. We Poles, we made our language and culture to survive any brutal times. And like Ukrainians are now making any efforts to survive and they already win! Україна переможе! 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦

[@melantepalantur7143]

Another comment from a Ukrainian here, I cried through pretty much the first part of the video as you mentioned all the historic events that happened to our language. Thank you. Keep up the good work.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@Alex.Kalashnik]

Yes, I often cry when I see foreigners finally recognize and support our history and language. It’s so comforting after centuries of being unknown to the world.

[@recycling7581]

Какая история идиоты вас Ленин создал 😂

[@PowerPuff_cheeeze]

Fun fact: "Carol of the Bells" was adapted from "The Little Swallow" (or Bountiful Evening, or Shchedryk) - ukrainian shchedrivka (we singing it in Shchedryi Vechir). It was written by Ukrainian composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych (he lived and died in my oblast)

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

This song is very popular in the US around Christmas.

[@Daniel_Poirot]

Welcome if you want to know more about the Ukrainian language.

[@thenashbridges]

While "Carols of the Bells" has it's own lyrics, there's a word by word translation of Shchedryk into English made by Eileen. Check out her KZbin channel if you want to know the roots of this famous carol.

[@Daniel_Poirot]

I mean, join me.

[@wzzzup]

Yeah. And he was killed by soviet chekist.

[@igorsvyryd]

I am Ukrainian and I'm impressed with the ammount of research and efford you've put into making this video. Thank you for your work, really appreciate your support, especially in such a grieve time, when our people once again have to fight for our lives, language and country deffending ourselves from russcism.

[@Charles_D-Artagnan]

The author did a lot of work and most importantly - he tells the truth, in accordance with historical facts.

[@morganbog8749]

I am really impressed how many Ukrainians here have no clue about own history! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ Really sad...

[@igorsvyryd]

​ @Morgan Bog One of key points of this video is desperate attempts of Russia to erase Ukrainian history. Partially these efforts succeeded. So why are you impressed?

[@Charles_D-Artagnan]

@@morganbog8749 Many Ukrainians know their history. It all depends on the time when they studied: the USSR or in Independent Ukraine.

[@familymaslov1971]

I am really surprised that someone care to learn our history

[@jonasjonava]

If you know Czech, Polish - a group of Slavic languages, it's easy to learn Ukrainian. I understand about 80%, I can also read Ukrainian. I write only with the help of the Google translate program. Glory to Ukraine!!! Lithuania. Kaunas 1000k❤️❤️❤️

[@PatriciaSantos-qt9lw]

Excellent. I loved this video about the beautiful Language of the bravest People in the world. *From Portugal. 💗🇺🇦🔱

[@Sleepyphoenix]

🇺🇦❣️🇵🇹

[@misterx2598]

Дякую за твою роботу, друже! Наша мова не вмре і не загине, скільки б вороги на неї не зазіхали! Слава Україні!

[@oleh_1337]

🔱 🇺🇦

[@Daniel_Poirot]

Їм не вдасться. Приєднуйтеся до мене в посиленні її обороноздатності.

[@oleksandrmedvedev]

Слава Україні!

[@Daniel_Poirot]

@@oleksandrmedvedev , Героям Слава!

[@user-vi2oj6hb5p]

ми її і без ворогів понівечимо. Дебільними фемінітивами і словами, виколупаними з 300-річної сивини, які типу як аутентичніші. І не забудьте про кончене гекання, де не треба. Мене аж плавить, коли чую Г там, де англійською звук Х. Пропала українська мова давно і назавжди...

[@yevaerin4744]

I am so proud to be a Ukrainian. Our language is a true treasure

[@dav2ry7]

Тільки забруднена вона трохи... 😔

[@yevaerin4744]

@@dav2ry7череж суржик

[@Daniel_Poirot]

I also investigate this treasure.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@hilarjia]

@@yevaerin4744 в суржику немає нічого поганого🫣

[@sterlingdafydd5834]

After studying Russian since high school ….decades….now my attention is turned to Ukrainian..!!!

[@mohandimazatene6153]

It makes sens as Ukrainian is much more spoken language all over the world than the Russian one !

[@mitchyoung93]

@@mohandimazatene6153 And it has many more world famous writers than Russian!

[@Mary-yp1dc]

​@@mohandimazatene6153да вы что ? Носителей украинского языка куда меньше ,как бы не хотелось верить в сказочное "обратное" .

[@helengroza]

This is the best video in English I've seen about Ukrainian language. Thank you for doing this! The result is a wonderful product. 👍🏻 Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I'm impressed with how much you know about us, the Ukrainians, and our history. I appreciate sharing this knowledge with the English-speaking world ❣️

[@user-xg2jt2rz6n]

I really like you pointed out that Ukrainian has more similarities with Belorussian and Polish than with russian, this fact was ignored by many years, because of russian speculation about ‘language cradle’, which is proved to be nonsense. We still fighting for this language to live, generation by generation, and it means a lot, that now we are not alone in this fight. Thank you

[@mariuszlech9173]

Niestety to co piszesz to jest tylko współczesna propaganda , przeciętny Polak gdy styka się z językiem Ukraińskim nie rozumie więcej jak 20 procent słów . Podobnie jest z Ukraińcami . Tę propagandę szerzą sami Ukraińcy w celu ''przytulenia " się do Polski i Polaków . Ale wydaje się to być bardziej śmieszne jak godne zainteresowania .

[@mariuszlech9173]

A jako ciekawostkę powiem ci że każdy Polak, Słowak czy Czech rozumie język 'Karpato-Rusinów, w 80 procentach . Dziwny zbieg okoliczności prawda?

[@daianaiskander2757]

I'm Ukrainian (Ukrainian native speaker) from Donetsk and not even sure which language is it, yet I understand your comment :D

[@user-xg2jt2rz6n]

@@mariuszlech9173 I do understand Polish, even I wasn’t introduced to it like to russian from media and TV, it may be hard for me to read or to write, since we use cyrillic, but it’s easy to understand. But what drives me crazy is anywhere I go abroad people assume I am supposed or obligated to know russian. It’s always a surprise for them, that I rather will speak English or try to understand their native language, but not russian.

[@mariuszlech9173]

@@user-xg2jt2rz6n I tym się różnimy , jako narody i jako kultury . Polska i Polacy wycierpieli o wiele więcej prześladowań i wojen ze strony Rosji niż Ukraińcy , tylko nikt was o tym nie uczy . Gdy wasz język w Rosji była traktowany jak ''język prostego ludu ", to nasz polski była systematycznie niszczony , Polacy rusyfikowani w szkołach a inteligencja wywożona na Syberię przez 100 lat , w tym czasie Szewczenko pod opieką rosyjskiego arystokraty tworzył swoją literaturę w waszym języku ukraińskim . Ale nie dostajemy ''szału" kiedy rozmawiamy z kimś w języku rosyjskim, na przykład z uchodzcami z Ukrainy czy z Gruzinami albo z Białorusinami . Ja sam znam zarówno rosyjski jak i angielski i nie mam żadnych problemów z rozmawianiem w jednym czy drugim języku .

[@svasylenko]

I am Ukrainian and I greatly appreciate that you made this video. Thank you! Щиро дякую! 💙💛

[@Daniel_Poirot]

Я теж роблю.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@corneliaminor4810]

So interesting to learn about the history of the Ukrainian language (and also about Ukrainian history)! I just started to learn Ukrainian and yes, it is difficult. But nevertheless I have fun with learning! Now I'm even more interested!

[@BloomessaWowWinxClub]

Don’t stop! Wish you luck💙💛

[@pas0003]

I'm a Ukrainian who mostly speaks Russian and English, living overseas. I'm going back to my roots and learning Ukrainian and ditching Russian. I'm a prime example of russification. I really appreciate your video! Thank you! 🇺🇦 I'm really glad you mentioned Holodomor as well. Слава Україні!

[@Alex.Kalashnik]

Героям Слава! 🇺🇦 Same case here.

[@stay_with_me_natalija]

З такою гордістю: I'm a prime example of russification. 🫤

[@dahliyani]

I'm learning Ukrainian. The only language I've loved enough to put the effort into learning. I listen to Ukrainian music exclusively at the moment and I love the sound of the language and the emotion behind it but people look at me weirdly when I tell them that. oh well. Thank you for the history of this language.

[@sanagul-origin5412]

Where are you from?

[@artempatyka8103]

Write me if you need help in learning Ukrainian 😊

[@Warponator]

same as Artem, hit me up if you need help with learning. I'm mostly in Telegram (something like WhatsUp) but i have a Discord as well

[@libera9552]

👍👍👍

[@maryfrom]

Let us know if you need any support here :) Greetings from Kyiv 🇺🇦

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Helicopter in Ukrainian: Гелікоптер - Helicoptér Гвинтокрил - Hvyntokryl Вертоліт - Vertolit

[@ascende_superius]

Basically each of forms are just coming from different languages: Helicoptér from English, Vertolit from Russian, and Hvyntokry̍l is, i guess, native Ukrainian word. The last one is really cool to use Upd: ok, i got it, there's a difference between those. _Helicopter_ comes from Greek, and _Vertolit_ is also native Ukrainian word. They are the same. But _Hvyntokryl_ is gyrodine, though often used as synonym to the first two

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@ascende_superius Hvyntokryl is proper Ukrainian indeed.

[@artemgrischuk7741]

Yeah, and all of them are correct. They are synonims

[@kadmytr]

Actually "гвинтокрил" ("hvyntokryl") is "gyrodyne", not "helicopter". It's common mistake.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@kadmytr well, the word is used for helicopter and no-one is thinking about etymology

[@s19or]

I'am Ukrainian. Thank you Olly for your job. Glory to Ukraine!🇺🇦✊

[@irinaruzhanskaya3840]

Amazing story about beautiful and much-suffering Ukrainian language! Thank you for populating among EN speaking audience! Glory to Ukraine!

[@valeriamarus6520]

If I am not mistaken, Ukrainian is THE ONLY language in the world in which the word "man" (human, person) has a feminine gender: людина (l'udyna). Ukrainian also has feminine forms for all professions, which indicates respect for women since ancient times. And the last fact. The Ukrainian language is melodious also because it is flexible: in many words, the first letter can change depending on the last letter of the previous word to achieve melodiousness. Many thanks for sharing the history of Ukrainian! Slava Ukraini!

[@valeriamarus6520]

@Andrew Najdenov hahaha, true

[@NataliaVasylenko]

This is true indeed. Thanks for sharing these facts!

[@kagobenz]

What does having feminine forms for all professions in a language have to do with respect (or disrespect or whatever else) for women? The correct answer is - nothing. It's a language and it has nothing to do with sick fantasies of some women who are obsessed with their gender. Nuff said.

[@connormurphy683]

The Arabic word for 'people' (ناس nās) is grammatically feminine singular

[@LaParisienne971]

No, If you mean “man” as male in Ukrainian is - чоловік, if you mean “man” as human - is людина And людина is fem. Most of professions in Ukrainian have famine forms, you are right. But same things happened in German and in polish . For ex in English doctor (he or she), in German (arzt,- he doctor, ärztin she doctor) In polish (lekarz - he doctor, lekarka - she doctor), in Ukrainian (лікар -he doctor, лікарка - she doctor) But if you will you in Ukrainian masc. form for the profession of woman it could be acceptable.

[@kashiomi_art]

Thank you for this wonderful video! Shevchenko helped popularize the language we now know as modern Ukrainian, but there was one more outstanding man before him. Ivan Kotliarevskyy was "the first modern Ukrainian writer" with his poem "Eneida" and further works. I've been russian speaking for most of my life because of past forced russification of Ukrainian cities, especially in the eastern and central Ukraine, since they are closer to russia. But I'm extremely happy that now me and all my loved ones switched to Ukrainian. We cherish our language, because it's beautiful, powerful and free.

[@kashiomi_art]

The part about the word helicopter is true! We have three words for it: гелікоптер, вертоліт, гвинтокрил. The first two are used the most often

[@Mortablunt]

Shevchenko was a Nazi www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110671186-005/pdf

[@tktilk3878]

Хороше рішення, друже, ці московитські чорти спершу приносять пушкіна і повчають тебе як жити у тебе дома а потім кажуть - "мижебратья" і приїжджають на танках і посилають тебе і твоїх дітей робити те саме в інші чужі країни

[@Daniel_Poirot]

@@kashiomi_art , join me to learn the past of our ancestors. If you wish. Glory to Ukraine!

[@victoriakyivua6929]

Fully support this comment, friend. I was born in the South East, i always loved Ukrainian language more , but all my neighbors and most of relatives were speaking russian back in the days, nowdays they all speak Ukrainian and me too moreover i moved 15 years ago to central Ukraine

[@Vseznaushaya]

Thank you from Ukraine! You made a very interesting story about our language. We hope, Europeans now understand the difference between Ukrainians and Russians. Thank you for supporting us💙💛 I subscribed

[@mariachernous1941]

As a Ukrainian I want to thank you for sharing the story of my mother tongue. It's so important to us to make foreigners understand not only our culture, but also our history ❤️ We do appreciate your hard work!

[@miroslavaharnuskova3717]

Ukrainian language is so beautiful. Thank you for a great video!! ❤from Slovakia🇸🇰❤🇺🇦

[@listoopad]

Дякуємо вам)

[@Diashka0]

💗💗💗💗Дякую - thank!!!!🇸🇰💓🇺🇦

[@user-kp5ru7ng6d]

Ďakujem mnohokrát ❤️💙💛

[@evelynmedranorubio2004]

I agree

[@dr.dolzur223]

It's amazing that people from other countries appreciate Ukraine. Thanks, buddy!

[@Charles_D-Artagnan]

Due to the war - now many people are interested in - who are Ukrainians?

[@denisss9350]

Great video Olly. Many westerners think of Ukraine and its language as Russia(n). But u did some great work showing history of beautiful Ukrainian language. Yet there is another great language - Belorussian, which is unfortunately stands at the edge of extinction. To my Russians speaking friends, you have to admit Ukrainian language exists and you need to embrace the diversity. Same way as Swedes never say that Danish doesn't exist.

[@libera9552]

Thank you for supporting Ukraine!💝 Stand with Ukraine!💪💪💪🇺🇦 God save and bless Ukraine! 🙏🙏🙏

[@LisaAugust]

I am a Ukrainian refugee currently living in England. I'm overwhelmed by all the support and interest British people have for our culture, history, and language! Thank you so much, this video was incredibly interesting and insightful! Thank you for supporting and telling more people about Ukraine! 🇺🇦🥺

[@Daniel_Poirot]

I'm telling even more about it.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@alexanderkretov7731]

Мені, як українцю, дуже приємно слухати як ти розповідаєш нашу історію. Велике дякую за твою працю, однозначно лайк!

[@user-er9vx1kp5u]

I am Ukrainian and I'd like to thank you for this amazing video about my mother tongue 😘

[@GloryToUkrainianPeople]

As a Ukrainian living in the USA I am very grateful for your video 💙💛 The world must know about how beautiful Ukrainian is. It is one of the most romantic and musical languages (along with French, Italian and Spanish languages) Дуже Дякую! 🙏🏻🇺🇦🙏🏻

[@valerieandherlifeofwonders2465]

Thanks for the great video! I just wanted to add few facts to it: 1. Shevchenko was actually a slave (in Ukraine a slave was called "kripak") and he was bought by his friends from his master. He also was a painter and quite a great socialite. 2. The first modern (or you may say peoples - народна мова) Ukrainian language poem was written by Ivan Kotlyarevskyi and published in 1798, so before Shevchenko (or Pushkin, if we're comparing) was even born. It's called "Eneida" (yes, like Virgil's work) and it follows the adventures of a fine and agile kozak Enei ("Еней був парубок моторний. І хлопець хоч куди козак"). It's an amazing humorous poem I highly recommend to anyone interested. AND it was beautifully animated in 1991 and you can watch it for free here on KZbin, just search for "Eneida/ Енеїда 1991". Even without understanding the language you will definitely enjoy the picture and music. P.S. i got shivers and cried, when you talked about the kobzars. It's not widely a widely known fact, so thanks for speaking up about it in your video.

[@cauchemarr]

I am so proud of being Ukrainian and knowing this language)

[@ashtonshelton8584]

Ukrainian is a very beautiful language! I’m from Texas in the US, and have been trying to learn some for the last couple of weeks. Слава України!🇺🇦

[@Alina-dw2lg]

@@ashtonshelton8584Героям Слава 🇺🇦 ❤️

[@o.z]

@@ashtonshelton8584 This is where the declinations are important: Слава України means Glory of Ukraine. The saying is actually Слава Україні, which means Glory to Ukraine. :)

[@ashtonshelton8584]

@@o.z oh that’s valuable valuable information haha thank you!!!

[@jinochka13]

@@ashtonshelton8584 thank you for for being interested in our language, some people in Ukraine and also in US thinks *goddamnit am i really interested in what's happening somewhere 1000 miles away from my city?*

[@yuliaom3616]

Thank you for spreading information about the Ukrainian language and culture. It is very pleasant for the Ukrainian people and it means a lot.❤️🇺🇦

[@bodiaspace0468]

As one of Ukrainian Im very happy to see videos of this type. You realy found true facts about language history

[@internetmousse]

Hi, Ukrainian here! Just wanted to let you know that watching this video made me really emotional, and it actually made me cry a bit, but it's just because I'm so happy you spread the info about our language, I can't thank you enough! :'( The topic of prohibiting a Ukrainian language is really sensitive for me since I was born and raised in the eastern part of Ukraine and my grand-grandparents experienced Holodomor and forced russification, but our family still speaks Ukrainian! I'm glad my parents protected Ukrainian language for me, and now seeing someone from the other country making such a detailed piece about Ukrainian language (which is also can be considered as protecting this language from disappearing) makes my heart melt. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

[@Irene-jr3qg]

I was crying too. We all feel the pain of our brave ancestors. Until 24.02.2022 the anti Ukrainian language propaganda financed by Russia was still working. This is such a beautiful language. But for Russian empire it was always a language of resistance and freedom loving people. The main danger for this evil empire.

[@internetmousse]

@@Irene-jr3qg Yes, true! Until 24.02.2022 Ukrainian language was considered as "the language of uneducated people from villages" and I was bullied for speaking Ukrainian too :( Soviets created this myth, I'm so glad now this narrative is slowly dying and more and more people are genuinely interested in Ukrainian language

[@zoralinka]

Same here!

[@user-nb4qk2xl3u]

Did you know that Christmas Cerrol is actually Schedrivochka, wrigting by Ukrainian compositor, Mykola Leontovych.

[@Daniel_Poirot]

I do. But I also investigate the history of this language.

[@Chillburger]

💙💛As a ukrainian i want to thank you for your work, this is really important for Ukraine, especially now. Also video is very easy to watch, lots of information i didnt even know by myself! liked and subscribed for sure, and, again - many thanks. 💙💛

[@redpurple_ua]

Thank you so much for the video! As a Ukrainian, I want to say that as the result of all the historical events in Ukraine, Ukrainian used to be very discriminated among people, especially in big cities. And it was just a few years ago. If you spoke Ukrainian in a big city, you were considered a villager and people looked down at you. I'm from a small town in Ukraine where people mostly speak Ukrainian or surzhyk (mixed Ukrainian and Russian), and I remember being discriminated for the language I speak. It was not prestigious to speak Ukrainian, to write a message to somebody in Ukrainian, to have a business phone call in Ukrainian. People who moved to big cities started speaking Russian hoping that nobody will notice their accent and their mistakes, because nobody wanted to be looked down at. Now everything is changing. Now people will look down at you if you speak Russian.

[@vladyslavh3940]

Thank you for covering my native tongue! Much love from Ukraine🇺🇦❤️

[@storylearning]

Same to you!

[@user-wc8cj7dc3n]

*language

[@vladyslavh3940]

@@user-wc8cj7dc3n “tongue” can also be used in this case. There’s no need for correction

[@Morriell]

@@vladyslavh3940, no, it can't. The Oxford dictionary specify what a "tongue" is. It have a identical pronunciation with "language" word in a russian translation, but the meaning is completely different. The "tongue" is a part of a body, while the "language" is a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar

[@vladyslavh3940]

@@Morriell “Tongue” is also used to mean “language”, although it’s a somewhat old-fashioned usage. Just to give one example: the King James Version of the Bible, published in 1611 but used very widely by English-speaking Christians for centuries afterwards, mentions how Jesus’s disciples “began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” (Acts 2:4) It means that they were speaking different languages. Your “mother tongue” or “native tongue” is the language you learned from your mother, as a child-although you might one day master a “foreign tongue”. It’s an expression that is used by native speakers. It doesn’t have to do anything with Russian at all.

[@user-ww6bd5wu4i]

Hi! I’m Ukrainian, from Kyiv, and I want to thank you for the video:)) The information you told is great, but there’s one thing that you didn’t mention, so I want to tell it. The problem is, because of russification in the past, nowadays there’s really A LOT of Ukrainians who talk Russian in every day life. So did I before the war. We know ukraininan very well, we learn it all the time and use it in official situations, but the truth is, it is hard to take Russian language away, even if people understand the importance of language. We don’t shame people who talk Russian or Ukrainian, but, sadly, we are two language country. BUT because of war there’s now a really great amount of people who talked Russian the whole life, but now start to talk Ukrainian only. And me too. My “home” language was Russian, but my family don’t want to talk the language of our enemies anymore. And I’m glad that many adults and teenagers change Russian to Ukrainian too. It’s like a bad habit that we need to get rid of. That’s all, that you for attention)

[@zaba18]

Same story, sister!

[@vasssssson]

I have nothing to say. Just. Thanks to you from all my heart to tell the true story of Ukrainian language survivor. Survive...

[@alonalakhno2421]

You did a really great job. Thank you. The world needs to know why exactly so many Ukrainians spoke Russian before the full-scale invasion. One might think to speak Russian is equal to be pro-russian. But it's not. Our language was banned many times throughout our history and it was considered to be the language of village,of poor educated people in Russian empire and Soviet Union, while Russian was the language of elite. There were Ukrainian schools during the USSR, but to get higher education, Russian was a must.

[@user-qs5rn6dj7g]

Дякую, що розповідаєте всьому світу про українців. Нам потрібна ваша підтримка 💙💛

[@user-dt6rh1yv8f]

Так це правда

[@Daniel_Poirot]

Були вже у мене?

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@annabackman3028]

I was already in awe over the strength of the Ukrainian people, but this rose it even more!! Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦! Much respect from 🇸🇪

[@staskozak8118]

you have nice flag colours btw

[@griswa]

Thanks for your support

[@Artedge123]

I'm Ukrainian and I'm very grateful. This is beautiful video about our history n language. I had goosebumps when I heard the song "Sadok Vishenviy Koloa haty". We r strong n we r fighting for our freedom and for the world. Also it took me like 15 minutes but the only translation of word helicopter that I remember is "Gvintokryl"😅

[@Sleepyphoenix]

*hvyntocryl😁

[@victoriasnishchuk7652]

Our beautiful language will never die. Thank for the video 💛💙💛💙💛

[@user-uj7qt5fk6k]

Ukrainian language plays a huge role for Ukrainian identity. You have described essential aspects of Ukrainian language: how it survived a crackdown on itself. Thanks for covering this topic for English speakers. Слава Україні 🇺🇦❤️

[@Daniel_Poirot]

Він існує майже з давніх-давен. А я розповідаю як.

[@tatvynry6978]

Героям слава!

[@Paul-vk7bx]

I am part of the Ukrainian Diaspora and I've been learning Ukrainian since 2014... thank you for your work, it is great to see this content in English. Videos like these that portray the tragic history of Ukrainian language and culture are extremely important as the imperialist powers have always liked to pervert history to their benefit...unfortunately most of European historiography is still russo-centric... i like Ukrainian folk songs a lot, which was the main motivation to pick up the language.

[@MrIorveth-sm6wr]

Russian here, many thanks for your deep research and for the painful truth. I knew about some repressions that Ukrainian language has gone through, mostly about Stalin's ones, as I was taught about those at my middle school, but some of those facts were out of the blue. Shocking and making me feel guilty about what my country has been doing throughout the years. I hope that one day there could be a forgiveness, although the war made it extremely hard to believe in. Btw, I really like the sounding of Ukrainian when I watch short interviews with Ukrainian journalists and politicians on Ukraine 24 Channel, and while I'm watching more of them, my Ukrainian skills improve too. Hope some day I could speak Ukrainian by myself. I wish all Ukrainians a peaceful sky. Слава Україні!

[@Alex.Kalashnik]

Героям Слава! 🇺🇦

[@viktorias63]

hi, you won't be forgiven,don't ask

[@MrIorveth-sm6wr]

@@viktorias63 I didn't ask, I just hope for that... As who I am to ask, you know. But I didn't kill a single Ukrainian, I didn't vote for Putin, and I even protested against. But still, if you feel better not giving the forgiveness, and if it helps you to overcome the ongoing disaster - let it be so

[@yaroslavpanych2067]

Guys, don't tell him about unstressed vowels in words, how they are basically reduced to shwa sound (more precisely, they still pronounced in alphabetical style, but with influence of other certain vowel)

[@hwfcup1344]

Also an interesting fact! Ukrainian language has two words for “Love” which are kind of synonyms, but bear a slightly different meaning. The regular “Ljubow” and “Koxannja”, the latter means more sexual love. Like when you love your girlfriend it’s “Koxannja”, but “Ljubow” is what you feel towards your dog or your mother for exqmple.

[@user-jm9ko5wm5l]

Любити можна яблука, але наврядчи кохати їх

[@dmitriymaltsev3085]

Hm.Interesting

[@marinalataniuk3338]

I am Ukrainian and I appreciate the way you’ve told our story. There not too many information out there in internet about Ukraine mostly because it was banned and suppressed for years and years. I’m very happy that our history started to raise again. Thank you for taking your part in this process. ❤

[@ruvimkulyk5154]

Thank you for all the support brother, we appreciate it 💙💛

[@igorrootless515]

Thank You so much for Your support, for support from all of the People of Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All the best to You and Your channel!

[@x_e_n_a]

I'm Ukrainian and really appreciate that people around the world will learn more about Ukrainian language and history! Thanks for this video!!) Слава Україні!!!

[@derpauleglot9772]

Trying really hard to *not* study Ukrainian because I already have 5 languages to maintain and no urgent reason to study it - but man, what a beautiful language and what an interesting history 🙂 Maybe 10 minutes a day....^^

[@StepalexUA]

As Ukranian, i wish you luck and "nasnahy" ;)

[@derpauleglot9772]

@@StepalexUA Дякую

[@Grek1574]

Come to Ukraine (after the war) and maybe u will find why(or for whom=) learn our language!

[@iaroslavakryvoshei3593]

If you need a native speaker to practice with - we all are here for you! 💙💛

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

Do it 😉👍

[@dmytro_ale_ne_vyshnevetskyy]

Thanks a lot for sharing this information with the world! As a Ukrainian, I find it so touching that so many people have become interested in my native language that me and my family have always been very passionate about. So the Ukrainian language and culture are at least not worthless (unlike what my parents and grandparents were often told…)

[@oksanaklymenko3486]

Olly, thank you very much for such kind and pleasant words of support for the Ukrainian language and Ukraine! Many hugs from Ukraine😘

[@mishaknopkin2199]

I am Russian American for 31 years. You speak Ukrainian? There is a Civil War in Ukraine since 2014. Russians in Ukraine don't want to be Ukrainians. They want to speak Russian. So, they took weapons like we Americans ~250 years ago to protect Russian culture and educate their children in Russian. And now in 2022 Russia steps in and takes home four regions (more to come). You want Ukraine but fit into much smaller shoes (borders) and fight with Poland to keep Lvov and Kresty.

[@EnglishOlgaBond]

Olly, I cannot thank you enough for this video! I’m Ukrainian 🇺🇦 and I got so much pleasure watching this video, listening about my country, my people and our history! Thank you SO MUCH for this tremendous amount of work done to present the true vision on Ukraine and Ukrainians on such a fascinating way! You’re a great talent and a hero for me, as well as to many people here in comments, for sure! Big hugs and many thanks for your support! This means the world to me 🇺🇦🙏💙💛 P.S. came across your channel by accident, but I like and subscribe!

[@Daniel_Poirot]

What about visiting me? :)

[@iVo42928f]

I'm a Dutch speaker learning Ukrainian as my first Slavic language. Something I started to notice more and more, especially after looking into historical sound changes, is how many words are cognate to German and its ancestor languages. I cannot say for sure if this is an effect mainly carried through the Polish influence or by a separate cause, but it really eases the acquiring of new words. On top of that, many endings in both cases and verb forms quite resemble their Latin/Ancient Greek counterparts, again making it easier than expected for Germanic/Romance speakers to learn. I do wonder, did more people (especially Romance speakers as I already found German speakers with the same experience and Ukrainians having the same in reverse as they learn Dutch) experience this? And as this is my first Slavic language, with my only experience outside that being a kind of Ukrainian/Czech surzhyk to make myself understood there: are these Germanic loanwords in more Slavic languages?

[@whitehotflower]

This similarities could be explained with Kyivan Rus history. Those times a lot of vikings were living, traveling, trading and according to some myths even ruling in Ukraine. Also as you mentioned - Poland and Czechia as catholics with Latin influention. It could be one of those reasons or even all together which caused that

[@l.y.299]

we all have same roots (if you may call it). Check out the "The Indo-European Connection" video on the proto indo-european langauge, that will shed light on the topic you mentioned.

[@l.y.299]

"Germanic loanwords in more Slavic languages" not necessarily loan words. might just be cognates, as you have mentioned before. Like german Schwein and Ukrainian свиня (same as words for family members, many verbs like "to bear" (ukr. брАти) etc) are the same not because we never had pigs here and borrowed the word along with this poor animal, but because of the common (sort of) ancestors. Though there are Germanic loan words too, especially in western Ukrainian dialects.

[@iVo42928f]

@@l.y.299 I think I know what video you mentioned, and that is the quite clear cause behind the matching endings and some more 'hidden' cognates. However, the German loanwords are still very close to their (current) German counterparts, way closer than you expect from Slavic-Germanic cognates.

[@user-jy6lh2in8k]

Maybe it's just the Indo-European heritage?

[@alexsandr4835]

Thank you for sharing this information about our language and culture. We really appreciate any kind of support. 💙💛 🇬🇧

[@customeruser3716]

Thank you for the honest and professional review! Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

[@likelyhappy363]

Came across your video .. thank you for speaking about Ukraine. Indeed, Ukrainians have been struggling for their language, identity and state for more than 400 years

[@NikusikJJ]

😂😂😂🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ кто же вам так голову то задурил🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@likelyhappy363]

@@NikusikJJ ви прочитайте історію України . а потім пишіть коментарі. мені не дурили голову, як ви кажете. я знаю, як моя бабуся була вивезена до сибіру , і як московити вбивали людей , коли будували свій СРСР..

[@user-sz8bz8fy5u]

@@likelyhappy363 він не прочитає, бо та історія, що написана російською то, є суто росіянське ілюзорне бачення подій.

[@psychedelikchameleon]

Ukrainian is beautiful and I'm glad it has survived against huge odds

[@Daniel_Poirot]

It has survived from the distant past I talk about with my audience.

[@SuperStasyuk]

You are an amazing storyteller!!! Yes I am Ukrainian too. Listening to my history in your performance is just the best. Thank you and to people that supplied sources for this lesson. ❤❤❤❤, you 🔥 ))

[@katerynapankieieva9209]

that's nice to hear about the history of the Ukrainian language and the language itself from a foreigner, we are not yet used to it. but it's very touching, thank you!

[@alinakhvishchuk1322]

Thank you for the video! =) i was born in the Eastern part of Ukraine and all my family members spoke Russian then. I knew Ukrainian very well, but was lazy and not so motivated to use it in everyday life among my Russian-speaking relatives. However, putin did the impossible - my parents, sister and I are speaking Ukrainian. Most of my friends start to use Ukrainian as their main language. Lots and lots of Ukrainians (even elderly ones) refuse to have ANY common thing with Russian Federation, especially language. We all are determined to do everything to save the language as the brightest feature of our nation.

[@svitlana212]

Hopefully soon all Ukrainians will distance themselves from enemy-language ... russian

[@arkadijk.4116]

Дякую вам, що зробили вибір і пішли на незручності, щоб визначитися з тим хто ви.

[@antekp2965]

Widzę, że swołocz rosyjska alergicznie reaguje na inofrmacje o ukraińskim

[@bastion6421]

What language is this? It looks familiar, and I see familiar words. Is it Czech?

[@antekp2965]

@@bastion6421 Polish.

[@user-uj7qt5fk6k]

You're totally right. Русня біситься через кожну згадку правди про Україну. Russians are allergic to truth. Hi from Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@p_serdiuk]

It's so weird that I had no problems understanding that as a Ukrainian, but I can't really respond. :D

[@ttlbrh]

Always has been

[@irynamudryk1587]

Thank you for popularising Ukrainian language ❤

[@olenkaluchyshyn125]

Thank you for fascinating video about Ukrainian language! Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@sammymarrco2]

As an American with Ukrainian ancestors and a very Eastern European last name, I had no idea that they suffered this much before the holodomor and the modern war. No wonder they left to the US in the early 1900s. Thanks for this video.

[@jinochka13]

That's so cool you know who your ancestors were, and no wonder you didn't know about all sh*t usssr and russia were doing, thank you for being interested in this 💕

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

It's important to talk to your family and document things, if you can. Even if they never lived in the " old world" they may have some interesting insights. I think you could probably also get some family recipes for national dishes, which is always nice 👍

[@cutekiller2693]

Actually, we have had an Independence back in 1918 (УНР (Ukrainian People's Republic), but it did not last long, unfortunately, for plenty of reasons. That's why so many people were fled from their country, when the bolsheviks occupants came (

[@Daniel_Poirot]

In the US, people know fairly little about Ukraine. But I'm the one who tries to fix this. New "joiners" are welcome.

[@Daniel_Poirot]

@@jinochka13 , ще не були в мене? :)

[@bordergore1395]

I started learning Ukrainian back in April and it's the most beautiful language I ever heard of

[@user-oz2rr2bk5j]

Thank you so much for this wonderful short history of Ukrainian language! ❤❤❤

[@annasimonenko7703]

I love the part about the old Ukrainian language is spoken all over the world. I am A Ukrainian who moved to usa only 5 years ago and I met a 70 year old men here whose parents immigrated to usa in 30th so yes we he started speaking his amazing Ukrainian ( btw he was born in usa) some of the words I did not know as they were old vocabulary.

[@phantomzapad]

Thank you for the video! There's one more feature that makes Ukrainian sound so melodic called the rules of euphony. It means that in some words, we can replace consonants with vowels or vice versa so that there are no long sequences of consonants or vowels. For example, if a word starts with 'v', but there's a preceding word that ends with a consonant, the 'v' is replaced with "u". Ukrainian is a very flexible and diverse language, and the way it embraces various dialects also adds to its beauty.

[@jaykaufman9782]

I didn't understand the Rule of Euphony until you explained it so succinctly and eloquently! Usually just told the rules, without an explanation for the reasoning. Now it makes perfect sense. Thank you!

[@alphariusomegon5028]

Дуже дякую за поширення на англомовну аудиторію актуальної, та що найважливіше, правдивої інформації про усі перепетії, які пережила наша мова. З любов'ю з Києва)))

[@viktoriiaienko5311]

Wow, thank you Olly! Very important at this moment! ❤ Best regards from Ukraine!🇺🇦

[@olenaklassen451]

Thank you so much for support!

[@TonyVarious]

I am Ukrainian, and really grateful that you covered our history precisely and with love. My great grandmother went through famine in 1930s and she told me about that time. My teachers at school told us about persecution of Ukrainian language during soviet union time. And also worth noticing that modern russian propaganda says that Ukrainian should be exterminated, because it never existed, and its just "Lenin invented Ukraine". So all those who say that it's "cringe" or "fake" actually russians who want to believe that. Thank you again for covering our language in this video!

[@storylearning]

Thank you, I’m grateful for your comment

[@Soulskinner]

"And also worth noticing that modern russian propaganda says that Ukrainian should be exterminated, because it never existed, and its just "Lenin invented Ukraine". " - except it doesn't. Russian propaganda only concerned with keeping rights of Russian speaking population of Ukraine, to speak Russian (rather native language of the people of eastern part of the Ukraine).

[@user-xm9sh6pp6r]

Враньё!

[@TonyVarious]

@@user-xm9sh6pp6r you telling me, Ukrainian, that it's a lie? All the evidence and proven materials don't mean for you anything because you believe only what's told on your TV

[@Soulskinner]

@@TonyVarious Lol. While all the opposite evidence and proven material don't mean for you anything because you believe only what's told on your TV. So what's the difference? And who are the judges?

[@bruuuh_boi]

Despite you've just scratched a surface of the Ukrainian language oppression history - that still shows how much undivided and intertwined the people and their language are: people who fight today on the battlefields of Ukraine fight for the language as well, and use it even as weapon. Yup, Ukrainians are nice guys to befriend Thank you for your contribution, Olly

[@user-cs1pq4kv2s]

I am Ukrainian. Our language makes us stronger. My children sing Ukrainian songs during Russian attacks when it gets scary. Thank you for telling our history.

[@elenayakymiv1018]

Дуже дякую Вам за таку грандіозну працю в дослідженні української мови, історії, культури. Вражаюче позитивний погляд на український народ, це так цінно для мене. Я запитувала себе (особливо, коли розпочалася війна) : що мій народ несе в собі цінного унікального і важливого для світу. Які якості мого народу збагачують цій світ? І отримала відповідь від Вас. Всередині свого народу не так добре це можна побачити, як це можна зробити зі сторони, свіжим поглядом, так би мовити. Прекрасно освітлено Вами героїчність і незламність українського народу. І милозвучність самої мови Ви прирівняли до співу птахів! Також широкі можливості надавати відтінків і змінювати значення явища, змінюючи слова з допомогою префіксів та суфіксів. Благодарю Вас за такий надихаючий погляд і глибокий вдумливий аналіз історії і мови. Безмежно вдячна.

[@freikorpsdamonisch8127]

Схожі почуття виникли. Знаєте, нас століттями принижували і хоч я достатньо освічений і вихований в досить патріотичній родині, щоб не мати багатьох комплексів (наприклад з підліткового віку принципово розмовляв україгською в російськомовному середовищі, нехай у великій компанії), але все одно треба був свіжий погляд збоку. Дивно як часто ми не помічаємо очевидного у собі, зате сторонні бачать. У вас вийшло надзвичайно ємко в одному реченні і тремтливо в цілому. Погляд зачепився за комент.) "що мій народ несе в собі цінного унікального і важливого для світу. Які якості мого народу збагачують цій світ?" - перфектно. Постановка питання дуже по українськи. Добра вам.

[@buttermile]

Я українка. Дуже вдячна тобі за створення цього відео. Висвітлення нашої історії дуже важливе для розуміння нас як нації. Дуже вдячна тобі💙💛

[@mariyabelko9586]

Hi ) I am from Ukraine). You did a great job. Thank you all for our support. About helicopter : we are really can call it at least three different words. 1) Вертолiт, really alike as in Russian 2) Гелiкоптер, - that one as you can see is borrowings from English 3) Гвинтокрил - my favourite one. The most Ukrainian version at least on my opinion. Sorry for my English, I am still learning it.)))

[@user-im7km8tq7j]

Тільки "гвинтокрил" це не синонім, це окремий вид повітряного транспорту. Англійською він перекладається як gyrodyne. Люди помилково вважають що це синонім

[@mariyabelko9586]

@@user-im7km8tq7j yeah, i know, but people still use it )

[@dasharenkeu2771]

Thank you for this video from all Ukrainians! I'm very grateful, that you made video for a important theme for us. Wish you all the best!