Froth and the book. Rewiew of the book: Demska O. the ukrainian Language. Travelling from Bad Ems to Stresbourg. Kharkiv: Vivat, 2024. 304 p.

Abstract

In this book consisting of the foreword, twenty sections and index Orysia Demska, following Yury Sheveliov, gives an extensive review of the four periods of formation and development of the Ukrainian language: from the proto-Ukrainian dating from the early 11th century, to the old Ukrainian, the middle-age Ukrainian, and the modern-age Ukrainian. It is shown that the Ukrainian language occurred in an extremely multilingual and multi-dialect space on the terrains of the Kyiv state, which determined its cultural features and gave impulse to its powerful development. O. Demska calls the core center of the state a space in which three linguistic worlds were existing. The first one was the world of the Church Slavonic language. The second one was the old Kyiv language. The third one was a many-voiced world of colloquial dialects and urban coine (p. 41). Not being antagonistic, these worlds complemented and enriched each other in cultural dimensions.