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UKRAINIAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

UKRAINIAN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE. The history of a literary language in Ukraine begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus' about 988 and the adoption of the Church Slavonic language for use in liturgy and literature (chronicles, saints' lives, sermons). The Mongol Tatar destruction of Kiev in 1240 and the fourteenth-century partition of Ukrainian lands, chiefly among Lithuania and Poland, had profound effects on the development of languages and literatures in the area. In 1433 the Polish king W ł adys ł aw II Jagie ł ł o introduced Polish usage in Galician chanceries (at first Latin, then Latin and Polish) for court records and ...

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