Hovirnyk: Galician Dialect Videos

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 few examples, which cover the words/phrases “shliak trafyv,” “rover,” “truskavka,” and “dupa.”



The whole collection of these videos can be found on ZIK’s YouTube page Говірник ZIK.

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