In the Ukrainian city of Lviv has made an offer to discuss the possibility of the transition of the Ukrainian language in the Latin alphabet.
for reviews of the initiators of this idea, " for the Ukrainian people Latin will emphasize the identity of the nation and Europe." Residents of the city believe that sooner or later the Ukrainian language will switch to the Latin alphabet, reports TASS. In the 90-ies of XX century in Ukraine for the first time raised the question of romanization of Ukrainian language, linguists have developed and norms Latin spelling in the Ukrainian language. Thus, according to opinion polls, more than half of the population of Ukraine is the Ukrainian language consider themselves family and against switching to the Latin alphabet. The day of Ukrainian language and literature was established by the decree of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in 1997. Let's add that on the first Day of the weekend, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on activities award Taras Shevchenko said that only the Ukrainian language will have the status of a state in the country. First Poroshenko said that the second mandatory for the study of language in Ukraine is obliged to become English, and " not English ". In early July Poroshenko said that the provision of local authorities in Ukraine the right to give Russian, and other languages a special status within their respective territories is a reasonable compromise that will give the opportunity to withdraw from the agenda all insinuatio on language-related topics. Poroshenko also called the error the decision of the Verkhovna Rada of deprivation of the Russian language regional status.


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