Posted by Pavel on March 23, 2000 at 13:49:54:
In Reply to: What are we afraid of? posted by Yaroslav on March 22, 2000 at 14:39:03:
To be honest,we should admit,that the Ukrainian language itself is absolutely ARTIFICIAL.It's just a mixture of Russian and Polish and a kind of Polish legacy(due to their taking over the Western part of nowadays Ukraine in the Medeival).65% of the Ukrainian population(even ethnic Ukrainians) consider Russian to be their native.We should manage the way they do in Finland and Sweden(each of these countries does consider two languages to be official ones.