ABSTRACT
The name 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 44 million in the Ukrainian Republic, and by several million more in contiguous areas of Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics and Romania, and in Canada, the USA and Australia.
