Hi! I'm currently planning on learning Ukrainian both as a way to engage with my family's cultural heritage and as part of my graduate studies in literature. Sorry for my ignorance I'm just starting to jump into this. I have two questions:

1) Are there resources for the Volhynian-Podolian dialect group or either of its sub-dialects? Most of my ancestors are from that region.

2) How common is it to learn/speak Ukrainian dialects? What is the attitude towards standard Ukrainian? For comparison I've been learning Yiddish for a while now. Most classes teach standard Yiddish and there are very few resources out there to learn dialects (even fewer for the dialects spoken in the region of Ukraine). Even if you managed to learn a dialect well you'll sometimes get funny looks from teachers. I'm wondering if there's a similar attitude towards non-standard dialects in Ukrainian.

Thank you so much!

  • People still speak dialects irl. Even those speaking standard Ukrainian still use many local features.

    But teachers teach only standard Ukrainian, based on Kyiv-Polatava diaelect.

    You can try to find a local teacher, or mb linguistic group in discord or telegram to learn local dualects.

    The case with dialects in Ukraine is similar. Some people make fun of it and claim it to be a "village language", some kids get bullied. When i was dumb i bullied as well, even tho I am a dialect speaker myself.

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    1. There are, but they usually relegated to a) specialized literature, b) the popular literature where the character is deliberately written as the speaker of a certain dialect.

    2. Dialects are very common once you travel 10km from the nearest city, or when you visit a local bazaar in the city itself.

    3. You should probably learn the 'standard' language first, then maybe learn dialects. You won't learn the Yorkshire dialect before learning English, right?

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  • Teachers of Ukrainian teach the literary standard, not dialects

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  • Most of dialects are mild and intuitively understandable . Except for Черкаська and Закарпатська область.

    It's not like german or chinese dialects

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