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.
It depends on what part of Ukraine we're speaking about. In the Eastern and some areas of Central Ukraine people speak Russian, and Western Ukraine is... really Ukrainian. :) You see, it is NOT the matter of language, but mainly politics and mentality.Anyone in Ukraine speaks both Russian, and Ukrainian (better or worse).eport Abuse. The national language of the Ukraine is Ukranian. There are a lot of Russian speakers that also live in the Ukraine. Russian and Ukranian are very similar. As a matter of fact, if you learn one Slavic language really well, it is pretty easy to pick up the other ones.