ABSTRACT
The nam e of this Eastern Slavonic language derives from ukraina, the ‘border area’, the domain of the Cossacks, which lay between the Slav principalities to the north and west, and the Turkish hordes to the south. Today, the language is spoken by about 50 million in the Ukrainian Republic, and by considerable numbers in contiguous areas of Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and Romania, and in Canada, the USA, and Australia. The total number of speakers is probably around 60 million.
