Editing Ukrainian language (section)

==Current usage==
{{Further|Law of Ukraine "On supporting the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the State language"}}
[[File:Ivan Franko Museum in Krivorivnia.jpg|thumb|Ukrainian language traffic sign for the Ivan Franko Museum in [[Kryvorivnia]]]]
The use of the Ukrainian language is increasing after a long period of decline. Although there are almost fifty million ethnic [[Ukrainians]] worldwide, including 37.5 million in Ukraine in 2001 (77.8% of the total population at the time), the Ukrainian language is prevalent mainly in western and central Ukraine. In Kyiv, both Ukrainian and Russian are spoken, a notable shift from the recent past when the city was primarily Russian-speaking.<ref name="d-m.com.ua"/>

The shift is believed to be caused mainly by an influx of migrants from western regions of Ukraine but also by some Kyivans opting to use the language they speak at home more widely in public settings. Public signs and announcements in Kyiv are displayed in Ukrainian. In southern and eastern Ukraine, Russian is the prevalent language in most large and some small cities. According to the Ukrainian Census of 2001, 87.8% of people living in Ukraine were fluent in Ukrainian.<ref name="d-m.com.ua">{{Cite web|url=http://www.d-m.com.ua/05_03.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302201528/http://www.d-m.com.ua/05_03.htm|url-status=dead|title=D-M.com.ua|archivedate=2 March 2009|accessdate=31 July 2024}}</ref>

In August 2022, a survey in Ukraine by Rating Group found that 85% said they speak Ukrainian or Ukrainian and Russian at home, 51% only Ukrainian, an increase from 61% and 44% in February 2014.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-08-23 |title=Seventeenth National Survey: Identity. Patriotism. Values (17–18 August 2022) |url=https://ratinggroup.ua/en/research/ukraine/s_mnadcyate_zagalnonac_onalne_opituvannya_dentichn_st_patr_otizm_c_nnost_17-18_serpnya_2022.html |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Rating Group |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022194351/https://ratinggroup.ua/en/research/ukraine/s_mnadcyate_zagalnonac_onalne_opituvannya_dentichn_st_patr_otizm_c_nnost_17-18_serpnya_2022.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-08-23 |title= |script-title=uk:Сімнадцяте загальнонаціональне опитування: Ідентичність. Патріотизм. Цінності (17–18 серпня 2022) |trans-title=Seventeenth National Survey: Identity. Patriotism. Values (17–18 August 2022) |url=https://ratinggroup.ua/files/ratinggroup/reg_files/rg_ua_1000_independence_082022_xvii_press.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826043944/https://ratinggroup.ua/files/ratinggroup/reg_files/rg_ua_1000_independence_082022_xvii_press.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-26 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Rating Group |pages=29–38}}</ref> In the same survey, 76% considered Ukrainian their native language ({{Transliteration|uk|ridna mova}}), up from 57% in July 2012, including 30% of Russian speakers.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

===Popular culture===
{{Main|Music of Ukraine|Cinema of Ukraine}}

====Music====
Ukrainian has become popular in other countries through movies and songs performed in the Ukrainian language. The most popular [[Ukrainian rock]] bands, such as [[Okean Elzy]], [[Vopli Vidopliassova]], and [[BoomBox (Ukrainian band)|BoomBox]] perform regularly in tours across Europe, Israel, North America and especially Russia. In countries with significant Ukrainian populations, bands singing in the Ukrainian language sometimes reach top places on the charts, such as [[Enej]] (a band from Poland). Other notable Ukrainian-language bands are [[The Ukrainians]] from the United Kingdom, [[Klooch]] from Canada, [[Ukrainian Village Band]] from the United States, and the [[Kuban Cossack Choir]] from the [[Kuban]] region in Russia.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

====Cinema====
{{Update|section|updated=17 November 2013|date=April 2017}}

The 2010s saw a revival of Ukrainian cinema.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gazeta.ua/articles/culture/_mi-stojimo-bilya-vitokiv-vidrodzhennya-ukrajinskogo-kino-sumska/518589|title=Ми стоїмо біля витоків відродження українського кіно – Сумська|date=29 September 2013|access-date=17 November 2013|archive-date=27 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227151252/http://gazeta.ua/articles/culture/_mi-stojimo-bilya-vitokiv-vidrodzhennya-ukrajinskogo-kino-sumska/518589|url-status=live}}</ref> The top Ukrainian-language films (by IMDb rating) are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/language/uk?ref_=tt_dt_dt|title=IMDb – Data as for 17 November 2013|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=30 June 2018|archive-date=6 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906141210/http://www.imdb.com/language/uk?ref_=tt_dt_dt|url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2022}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Year!! Rating || Link
|-
| {{ill|Іван Сила|uk|Іван Сила (фільм)}} || 2013|| 8.6 || [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401213/]
|-
| {{interlanguage link|Тіні незабутих предків|uk}} || 2013 || 8.5 || [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2245906/]
|-
| {{interlanguage link|Звичайна справа|uk}}  || 2012|| 8.1 || [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381127/]
|-
| [[Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors|Тіні забутих предків]]  || 1965 || 7.9  ||[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058642/]
|-
| [[Pawnshop (film)|Ломбард]] || 2013|| 7.9  || [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2195804/]
|-
| [[Delirium (2013 film)|Деліріум]]  || 2013|| 7.8  ||[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2040319/]
|-
| {{ill|Фучжоу|uk|Фучжоу (фільм)}}  || 1993|| 7.7 || [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179186/]
|}

====Argots====
Oleksa Horbach's 1951 study of argots analyzed historical primary sources (argots of professionals, thugs, prisoners, homeless, school children, etc.) paying special attention to etymological features of argots, word formation and borrowing patterns depending on the source-language (Church Slavonic, Russian, Czech, Polish, Romani, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, German).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Argot in Ukraine|last=Horbach|first=Oleksa|publisher=habilitation thesis, Ukrainian Free University in Munich|year=1951}}</ref>

===Dialects===
{{Main|Ukrainian dialects}}
[[File:Map of Ukrainian dialects en.png|thumb|A map of Ukrainian dialects and subdialects (2005)
{{legend|#5987FF|Northern group}}{{legend|#FFD326|South-eastern group}}{{legend|#FF4E44|South-western group}}
]]

Several modern [[dialect]]s of Ukrainian exist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um156.htm |title=Діалект. Діалектизм. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 November 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051101043729/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um156.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um184.htm |title=Інтерактивна мапа говорів. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=19 February 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219120041/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um184.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{em|Northern (Polissian)}} dialects:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um161.htm |title=Північне наріччя. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201132806/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um161.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(3) Eastern Polissian}} is spoken in [[Chernihiv oblast|Chernihiv]] (excluding the southeastern districts), in the northern part of [[Sumy Oblast|Sumy]], and in the southeastern portion of the [[Kyiv Oblast]] as well as in the adjacent areas of Russia, which include the southwestern part of the [[Bryansk Oblast]] (the area around [[Starodub]]), as well as in some places in the [[Kursk Oblast|Kursk]], [[Voronezh Oblast|Voronezh]] and [[Belgorod Oblast|Belgorod]] Oblasts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um155.ht |title=ІЗБОРНИК. Історія України IX-XVIII ст. Першоджерела та інтерпретації. Нульова сторінка |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201132825/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um155.ht |url-status=live }}</ref> No linguistic border can be defined. The vocabulary approaches Russian as the language approaches the Russian Federation. Both Ukrainian and Russian grammar sets can be applied to this dialect.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.ethnology.ru/doc/narod/t1/gif/nrd-t1_0151z.gif |title=map |date= |website=www.ethnology.ru |access-date=27 December 2005 |archive-date=9 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909083130/http://www.ethnology.ru/doc/narod/t1/gif/nrd-t1_0151z.gif |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(2) Central Polissian}} is spoken in the northwestern part of the [[Kyiv Oblast]], in the northern part of [[Zhytomyr Oblast|Zhytomyr]] and the northeastern part of the [[Rivne Oblast]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um167.htm |title=Середньополіський говір. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201132851/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um167.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(1) West Polissian}} is spoken in the northern part of the [[Volyn Oblast]], the northwestern part of the [[Rivne Oblast]], and in the adjacent districts of the [[Brest Region]] in Belarus. The dialect spoken in Belarus uses Belarusian grammar and thus is considered by some to be a dialect of Belarusian.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.belarusguide.com/as/map_text/havorki.html |title=Maps of Belarus: Dialects on Belarusian territory |publisher=Belarusguide.com |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=22 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522181734/http://www.belarusguide.com/as/map_text/havorki.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{em|Southeastern}} dialects:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um160.htm |title=Південно-східне наріччя. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201132739/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um160.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(4) Middle Dnieprian}} is the basis of the [[Standard language|Standard]] Literary Ukrainian. It is spoken in the central part of Ukraine, primarily in the southern and eastern part of the [[Kyiv Oblast]]. In addition, the dialects spoken in [[Cherkasy Oblast|Cherkasy]], [[Poltava Oblast|Poltava]], and Kyiv regions are considered to be close to "standard" Ukrainian.
** {{em|(5) Slobodan}} is spoken in [[Kharkiv Oblast|Kharkiv]], [[Sumy Oblast|Sumy]], [[Luhansk Oblast|Luhansk]], and the northern part of [[Donetsk Oblast|Donetsk]], as well as in the [[Voronezh Oblast|Voronezh]] and [[Belgorod Oblast|Belgorod]] regions of Russia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um169.htm |title=Слобожанський говір. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201132814/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um169.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> This dialect is formed from a gradual mixture of Russian and Ukrainian, with progressively more Russian in the northern and eastern parts of the region. Thus, there is no linguistic border between Russian and Ukrainian, and, thus, both grammar sets can be applied.<ref name="autogenerated1" />
** A {{em|(6) Steppe}} dialect is spoken in southern and southeastern Ukraine. This dialect was originally the main language of the [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um171.htm |title=Степовий говір. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101111035/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um171.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** A {{em|Kuban}} dialect related to or based on the Steppe dialect is often referred to as ''[[Balachka]]'' and is spoken by the [[Kuban Cossacks]] in the [[Kuban]] region in Russia by the descendants of the [[Zaporozhian Cossacks]], who settled in that area in the late 18th century. It was formed from a gradual mixture of Russian into Ukrainian. This dialect features the use of some Russian vocabulary along with some Russian grammar.<ref name="Zakharchenko">Viktor Zakharchenko, Folk songs of the Kuban, 1997 {{cite web |url=http://geocities.com/terek_kaz/pesni/peskub.htm |title=Oocities.com |access-date=2005-02-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050226230010/http://geocities.com/terek_kaz/pesni/peskub.htm |archive-date=26 February 2005 }}, Retrieved 7 November 2007</ref> There are three main variants, which have been grouped together according to location.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://harazd.net/~nadbuhom/mapy-historia/mapy_8.htm |title=Mapa ukrajinskich howoriv |publisher=Harazd.net |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=4 April 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404085334/http://harazd.net/~nadbuhom/mapy-historia/mapy_8.htm |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
* {{em|Southwestern}} dialects:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um159.htm |title=Південно-західне наріччя. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=7 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207143836/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um159.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(13) Boyko}} is spoken by the [[Boyko|Boyko people]] on the northern side of the Carpathian Mountains in the [[Lviv Oblast|Lviv]] and [[Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast|Ivano-Frankivsk]] Oblasts. It can also be heard across the border in the [[Subcarpathian Voivodeship]] of Poland.<!--Distinctive Features-->
** {{em|(12) Hutsul}} is spoken by the [[Hutsuls|Hutsul people]] on the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains, in the extreme southern parts of the [[Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast]], and in parts of the [[Chernivtsi Oblast|Chernivtsi]] and [[Transcarpathian Oblast|Transcarpathian]] Oblasts.<!--Distinctive Features-->
** {{em|Lemko}} is spoken by the [[Lemkos|Lemko people]], whose [[Lemkivshchyna|homeland]] rests outside the borders of Ukraine in the [[Prešov Region]] of [[Slovakia]] along the southern side of the Carpathian Mountains, and in the southeast of modern Poland, along the northern sides of the Carpathians.<!--Distinctive Features-->
** {{em|(8) Podillian}} is spoken in the southern parts of the [[Vinnytsia Oblast|Vinnytsia]] and [[Khmelnytskyi Oblast|Khmelnytskyi]] Oblasts, in the northern part of the [[Odesa Oblast]], and in the adjacent districts of the [[Cherkasy Oblast]], the [[Kirovohrad Oblast]], and the [[Mykolaiv Oblast]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um180.htm |title=Подільський говір. Українська мова. Енциклопедія |publisher=Litopys.org.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101111012/http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um180.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(7) Volynian}} is spoken in [[Rivne Oblast|Rivne]] and [[Volyn Oblast|Volyn]], as well as in parts of [[Zhytomyr Oblast|Zhytomyr]] and [[Ternopil Oblast|Ternopil]]. It is also used in [[Chełm]], Poland.
** {{em|(11) Pokuttia (Bukovinian)}} is spoken in the [[Chernivtsi Oblast]] of Ukraine. This dialect has some distinct vocabulary borrowed from [[Romanian language|Romanian]].
** {{em|(9) Upper Dniestrian}} (Kresy) is considered to be the main Galician dialect, spoken in the [[Lviv Oblast|Lviv]], [[Ternopil Oblast|Ternopil]], and [[Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast|Ivano-Frankivsk]] Oblasts. Its distinguishing characteristics are the influence of Polish and the German vocabulary, which is reminiscent of the [[Austro-Hungarian]] rule. Some of the distinct words used in this dialect can be found here.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ji.lviv.ua/n36-1texts/gwara.htm |title=Короткий словник львівської ґвари |publisher=Ji.lviv.ua |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=23 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123112532/http://www.ji.lviv.ua/n36-1texts/gwara.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
** {{em|(10) Upper Sannian}} is spoken in the border area between Ukraine and Poland in the San river valley.
* The {{em|[[Rusyn language]]}} is considered by Ukrainian linguists to be a dialect of Ukrainian as well:<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Petr |last1=Kokaisl |first2=Andrea |last2=Štolfová |first3=Pavla |last3=Fajfrlíková |first4=Veronika |last4=Němcová |first5=Jana |last5=Zychová |first6=Irena |last6=Cejpová |display-authors=et al. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2bSvEAAAQBAJ&dq=Officially,+state+officials+consider+Rusyn+to+be+just+one+of+many+dialects+of+Ukrainian,+the+so-called+Transcarpathian+dialect.&pg=PA57 |title=In the footsteps of the Rusyns in Europe: Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Poland and Hungary |date=2023-01-11 |publisher=NOSTALGIE Praha |isbn=978-80-908883-0-2 |pages=57 |language=en}}</ref>
** {{em|Dolinian Rusyn or Subcarpathian Rusyn}} is spoken in the [[Transcarpathian Oblast]].{{cn|date=June 2024}}<!--Distinctive Features-->
** {{em|[[Pannonian Rusyn language|Pannonian or Bačka Rusyn]]}} is spoken in northwestern [[Serbia]] and eastern [[Croatia]]. [[Rusin language]] of the Bačka dialect is one of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of [[Vojvodina]].{{cn|date=June 2024}}
** {{em|Pryashiv Rusyn}} is the Rusyn spoken in the Prešov (in Ukrainian: [[Pryashiv]]) region of Slovakia, as well as by some émigré communities, primarily in the United States of America.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

===Neighbouring countries===
{{Further|Languages of Romania#Ukrainian|Romania|Languages of Moldova#Ukrainian}}
[[File:Vviseului4.jpg|thumb|right|Sign in both Ukrainian and [[Romanian language|Romanian]] languages in the village of Valea Vișeului (Vyshivska Dolyna), [[Bistra, Maramureș|Bistra]] commune, Romania]]

All the countries neighbouring Ukraine (except for Hungary) historically have regions with a sizable Ukrainian population and therefore Ukrainian language speakers. Ukrainian is an official minority language in Belarus, Romania, and Moldova.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

===Ukrainian diaspora===
Ukrainian is also spoken by a large [[émigré]]e population, particularly [[Canadian Ukrainian|in Canada]], the United States, and several countries of South America like Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} The founders of this population primarily emigrated from [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]], which used to be part of [[Austro-Hungary]] before World War I, and belonged to Poland between the World Wars. The language spoken by most of them is the Galician dialect of Ukrainian from the first half of the 20th century. Compared with modern Ukrainian, the vocabulary of Ukrainians outside Ukraine reflects less influence of Russian, but often contains many [[loanwords]] from the local language.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Most of the countries where it is spoken are [[Post-Soviet states|ex-USSR]], where many Ukrainians have migrated. Canada and the United States are also home to a large Ukrainian population. Broken up by country (to the nearest thousand):<ref name=e27/>

# Russia 1,129,838 (according to the [[Russian Census (2010)|2010 census]]);<ref name="rus">{{cite web|url=http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/tab6.xls|script-title=ru:Население Российской Федерации по владению языками|language=ru|access-date=9 February 2013|archive-date=30 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530221314/http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/tab6.xls|url-status=dead}}</ref>
# Canada 200,525<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55539&APATH=11&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=41&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=4&FREE=0|title=Various Languages Spoken|publisher=[[Statistics Canada]]|year=2001|access-date=2008-02-03|archive-date=24 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524015103/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55539&APATH=11&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=41&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=4&FREE=0|url-status=dead}}</ref> (67,665 spoken at home<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55536&APATH=11&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=41&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=4&FREE=0|title=Detailed Language Spoken at Home|publisher=Statistics Canada|year=2001|access-date=2008-02-03|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202180854/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55536&APATH=11&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=41&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=4&FREE=0|url-status=dead}}</ref> in 2001, 148,000 spoken as "mother tongue" in 2001)<ref>Mother tongue "refers to the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census." More detailed language figures are to be reported in December 2007.  Statistics Canada (2007). ''[http://publications.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/12-581-X/12-581-XIE2006001.pdf Canada at a Glance 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205052736/http://publications.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/12-581-X/12-581-XIE2006001.pdf |date=5 December 2014 }}'', p. 4.</ref>

Ukrainian is declaratively proclaimed as one of three official languages of the breakaway Moldovan region of [[Transnistria]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Неофициальный сайт Президента ПМР |url=http://president-pmr.org/ |title=The Constitution of Transnistria, Article 12 |publisher=President-pmr.org |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205193950/http://president-pmr.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ukrainian is widely spoken within the 400,000-strong (in 1994) [[Ukrainian Brazilian|Ukrainian community in Brazil]].<ref name="Boruszenko">Oksana Boruszenko and Rev. Danyil Kozlinsky (1994). ''Ukrainians in Brazil'' (Chapter), in ''Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World'', edited by Ann Lencyk Pawliczko, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 443–454</ref> It is the official language in [[Prudentópolis]] alongside [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]].<ref>{{Cite act|type=Bill|index=024/2021|date=14 September 2021|article=1|url=http://www.cmprudentopolis.pr.gov.br/index.php?sessao=a8e910730f0da8&id=59452|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225004703/http://www.cmprudentopolis.pr.gov.br/index.php?sessao=a8e910730f0da8&id=59452|url-status=dead|archive-date=2022-02-25|language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tecnologia |first=Flize |date=6 October 2021 |title=Língua Ucraniana é oficialmente a Língua Co-oficial do município de Prudentópolis |trans-title=Ukrainian is officially the co-official language of the municipality of Prudentópolis |url=https://nossagente.info/2021/10/06/lingua-ucraniana-e-oficialmente-a-lingua-co-oficial-do-municipio-de-prudentopolis/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225004645/https://nossagente.info/2021/10/06/lingua-ucraniana-e-oficialmente-a-lingua-co-oficial-do-municipio-de-prudentopolis/ |archive-date=25 February 2022 |access-date= |website=Nossa Gente |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maier |first=Mayara |date=21 October 2021 |title=Prudentópolis tornou a Língua Ucraniana cooficial no Município |trans-title=Prudentópolis made the Ukrainian language official in the municipality |url=https://redesuldenoticias.com.br/noticias/lingua-ucraniana-e-oficializada-nessa-quarta-20-em-prudentopolis/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225232953/https://redesuldenoticias.com.br/noticias/lingua-ucraniana-e-oficializada-nessa-quarta-20-em-prudentopolis/ |archive-date=25 February 2022 |access-date= |website=RSN |language=pt}}</ref>