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Ukrainian is an East Slavic language spoken in present-day Ukraine by almost 80% of its population and in Ukrainian communities in Canada, the United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Brazil, Argentina, Poland, and other countries. Called formerly Ruthenian (rusʹkyj) in early modern Poland-Lithuania and South Russian or Little Russian in the Russian Empire, the history of this language goes back to the period of Kyivan Rusʹ. Ukrainian is currently viewed as a pluricentric language characterized by two national varieties, the first one being used in Ukraine and neighboring ethnic territories, while the second is employed in the Vojvodina region of Serbia. Ukrainian is a solid inflectional type sharing features with both adjacent and nonadjacent languages belonging to different groups of the Indo-European family.

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