Is a Ukrainian Standard of the Russian Language on the Agenda?
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2020
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Moser, Michael
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This article discusses the pros and cons of the creation of a separate Ukrainian standard
of the Russian language. Owing to the centralist and elitist history of the Russian standard
language, the high variant of Russian that is used in Ukraine does not significantly differ
from that of Russia, if at all. Low varieties, by contrast, are quite heterogeneous. The
standardization of "Ukrainian Russian" would thus be very problematic at all stages:
the selection of norms and their codification, the implementation and elaboration of
the new norms. All these steps would not only require considerable funding; in the long
run, it would also undermine the status of Ukrainian as Ukraine’s sole state language.
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Ukrainian language, Russian language, Ukrainian Russian, pluricentric (polycentric) languages, pluricentrization, Ukrainian language policy, article
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Moser M. A. Is a Ukrainian Standard of the Russian Language on the Agenda? / Michael A. Moser // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2020. - № 7. - P. 185-196.