It's Alive - Language I Mean: A History of the Ukrainian Language

Why is language important? How did the Ukrainian language evolve to what it is today? And how does language endanger the ruling class? Find out in this episode of Wandering the Edge about the history of the Ukrainian language. Also find out just how important Taras Shevchenko is to Ukraine and why little old ladies yelling at you is just a common past-time at Ukrainian museums. Warning: explicit language is used.Places to Go from this Episode:* National Museum of Taras Shevchenko: Tarasa Shevchenko Blvd, 12, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01004* Virtual Tour of the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko* Literary-Memorial Museum of Taras Shevchenko: Tarasa Shevchenka Ln, 8А, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001Sources:* Kushniarevich, Utevska, Chuhryaeva, Agdzoyan, Dibirova, Uktveryte, Mols, Mulahasanovic, Pshenichnov, Frolova, Shanko, Metspalu, Reidla, Balanovsky (...), "Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosonal Data" in Plos One (September 2, 2015). * Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2009).* Paul Robert Magosci, A History of Ukraine (1996)*Michael Moser, "Osnova and the Origins of the Valuev Directive" in East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies (2017)* Ralph Lindheim, George Luckyj, Towards Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995 (1996).* Johannes Remy, Brothers or Enemies: The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia from the 1840s to the 1870s (2016).* Biography of Mykola Kostomarov on the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.