Forgotten Galicia - Language Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/culture/language/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:26:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Forgotten Galicia - Language Archives https://forgottengalicia.com/category/culture/language/ 32 32 ‘False Friends’ between Galician and Standard Ukrainian https://forgottengalicia.com/false-friends-between-galician-and-standard-ukrainian/ https://forgottengalicia.com/false-friends-between-galician-and-standard-ukrainian/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:19:23 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=51101 When I moved to Ukraine, I had to learn a whole new Ukrainian vocabulary. It turned out that I had grown up speaking a Galician diasporic Ukrainian, which used many dialectisms, Polonisms, and archaisms, and which was absent of Russification. To keep track of the differences between the two lexicons, […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/false-friends-between-galician-and-standard-ukrainian/feed/ 0 Why do Ukrainians mix up H and Х? https://forgottengalicia.com/why-do-ukrainians-mix-up-h-and-x/ https://forgottengalicia.com/why-do-ukrainians-mix-up-h-and-x/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:07:02 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=52098 Ukrainian speakers often confuse the English H and the Ukrainian Х sound. This can be seen in a variety of places, like the common transcription of “happy birthday” as “хеппі бурздей”. When Russian speakers do this it seems to make sense – Russian does not have an “H” sound at […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/why-do-ukrainians-mix-up-h-and-x/feed/ 0 Long Live Skrypnykivka: How the Galician Diaspora Preserved the Ukrainian Orthography of 1928 https://forgottengalicia.com/long-live-skrypnykivka-how-the-galician-diaspora-preserved-the-ukrainian-orthography-of-1928/ https://forgottengalicia.com/long-live-skrypnykivka-how-the-galician-diaspora-preserved-the-ukrainian-orthography-of-1928/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:12:15 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=51083 The old Ukrainian diaspora, primarily originating from Galicia, has been instrumental in preserving linguistic elements predating the 1933 orthography, which marked the onset of russification in Ukrainian orthographic tradition. Alongside, this community has safeguarded distinctive Galician linguistic and orthographic customs, which have gradually faded within Galicia itself. This article has […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/long-live-skrypnykivka-how-the-galician-diaspora-preserved-the-ukrainian-orthography-of-1928/feed/ 0 ‘Servus’: ‘Hello’ from the Old Days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire https://forgottengalicia.com/servus-hello-from-the-old-days-of-the-austro-hungarian-empire/ https://forgottengalicia.com/servus-hello-from-the-old-days-of-the-austro-hungarian-empire/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:42:25 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=50057 Servus! This article is about a Galician tradition that can be found on both sides of the current Polish-Ukrainian border. It is about the word “servus,” a salutation typically used as a greeting, which gained popularity during the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and which became common across its entire territory. While […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/servus-hello-from-the-old-days-of-the-austro-hungarian-empire/feed/ 5 Why Does the Diaspora Write Their Дs So Strangely? https://forgottengalicia.com/why-does-the-diaspora-write-their-ds-so-strangely/ https://forgottengalicia.com/why-does-the-diaspora-write-their-ds-so-strangely/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:17:04 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=9940 People in Ukraine are usually perplexed when they see Ukrainians from the diaspora write their Дs like this: However, in the American and Canadian diasporas, this is an extremely common way of handwriting the letter Д — that is, a triangle with a leg inside as opposed to a flat-top […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/why-does-the-diaspora-write-their-ds-so-strangely/feed/ 1 My Best Dictionary: Ukrainian Diaspora Children’s Dictionary https://forgottengalicia.com/my-best-dictionary-ukrainian-diaspora-childrens-dictionary/ https://forgottengalicia.com/my-best-dictionary-ukrainian-diaspora-childrens-dictionary/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:05:23 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=799 A few years ago when I was was in Chicago, I found this Ukrainian (English and French) children’s dictionary at home. It was published in Canada—though I’m not sure what year. The book includes a lot of examples of words that are used in the diaspora, but which are no […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/my-best-dictionary-ukrainian-diaspora-childrens-dictionary/feed/ 1 The Ukrainian Alphabet and the Soft Sign https://forgottengalicia.com/ukrainian-alphabet-soft-sign/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ukrainian-alphabet-soft-sign/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:45:47 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=171 There are several differences in the Ukrainian alphabets used in the diaspora (specifically the community that has its origin from Galicia) and in Ukraine, in particular, how the alphabet is called, the  pronunciation of the letters, the melody used to sing the alphabet (or the lack thereof a song), as […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/ukrainian-alphabet-soft-sign/feed/ 0 Rover: Bicycle Galician-Style https://forgottengalicia.com/rover-bicycle-galician-style/ https://forgottengalicia.com/rover-bicycle-galician-style/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:40:41 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=779 In the Ukrainian diaspora we call a bicycle a “rover” – the word which was commonly used in western Ukraine before the war. Now in Ukraine the name “velosyped” is more widely used, but people in western Ukraine, espеcially in villages, still often say “rover.” (For more about the diaspora language, click here.) The […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/rover-bicycle-galician-style/feed/ 0 The Vanishing Galician Lexicon and How It Lingers in the Diaspora https://forgottengalicia.com/the-lexicon-of-the-third-wave-ukrainian-diaspora/ https://forgottengalicia.com/the-lexicon-of-the-third-wave-ukrainian-diaspora/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:53:52 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=796 When I moved to Ukraine, I had to learn a whole new Ukrainian vocabulary. It turned out that I had grown up speaking a Galician/diasporic Ukrainian, which used many dialectisms, Polonisms, and archaisms. To keep track of the differences between the two lexicons, as well as to document the way my […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/the-lexicon-of-the-third-wave-ukrainian-diaspora/feed/ 33 Hovirnyk: Galician Dialect Videos https://forgottengalicia.com/galician-dialect-videos/ https://forgottengalicia.com/galician-dialect-videos/#respond Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:02:38 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=87 The western Ukrainian news outlet ZIK released a series of videos explaining the origins and meaning Galician words and phrases. Traveling around the region, including to Lviv, Ternopil, and the Hutsul region, the hosts tell interesting stories about the word as well as examples of its usage. Below are a […]

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