Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries: Language Revival, Language Removal, and Sociolinguistic Theory
@article{Pavlenko2008MultilingualismIP, title={Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries: Language Revival, Language Removal, and Sociolinguistic Theory}, author={Aneta Pavlenko}, journal={International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism}, year={2008}, volume={11}, pages={275 - 314} }
In December of 2007, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine announced that starting in 2008 all foreign-language movies shown in the country will have to be translated into Ukrainian via dubbing, subtitles, or synchronous translation. There would be nothing attention-worthy about this announcement if the ‘foreign language’ category didn’t also include Russsian, the native language of 30% of the population of Ukraine (www.ukrcensus.gov.ua), and one used and understood by the majority of the…
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