A pejorative meaning of the word began to develop in the Viking Age, but is clearest in the medieval Icelandic sagas, written two or three centuries later â in the 1300s and 1400s.
The Ukrainian is a cyrillic alphabet, not latin, so it is similar to other Eastern Slavic alphabets (including Russian). While many letters are similar, most slavic languages have letters that are unique to their alphabets. The Russian alphabet includes such letters as Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, the Ukranian one doesn't include these letters.
The majority of people in Ukraine speak... Ukranian ! 67.5% declare Ukrainian is their first/native language. The next major language is Russian, 29.6% of the population claim Russian as their native language. Most/many Ukrainians can speak both languages. Of course there are other language groups living in Ukraine, but these are a very small percentage.