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- Kiev is Russian. We should use Kyiv. It's like KEE-eev. But if you say KEEV that is fine.
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Mar 2, 2022 · The Russian name for Ukraine's capital is Киев (Kiev), which, as you would expect, uses Russian sounds. (Just like English speakers use English sounds to say Madrid, Istanbul, and Reykjavik!) But the Ukrainian name of Ukraine's capital is Київ (Kyiv), which, naturally, uses the native Ukrainian sounds to say its own capital's name.
Feb 25, 2022 · The short answer is simple: Ukrainians call their capital “Kyiv” (kee-yiv), the spelling, a transliteration of the Ukrainian Київ. The Russian version is “Kiev” (kee-yev).
According to the census of 1897, of Kyiv's approximately 240,000 people approximately 56% of the population spoke the Russian language, 23% spoke the Ukrainian language, 13% spoke Yiddish, 7% spoke Polish and 1% spoke the Belarusian language.
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Oct 23, 2016 · Kiev predominantly speaks Russian and maintains Russian culture. Ukrainian language (or Surzhyk) is mostly spoken in western ( Galician dialect ) and partially central Ukraine ( Surzhyk ). So if the person speaks Ukrainian, most likely he/she's not from Kiev.
- TL;DR: as of 2016, it was Russian; its dominance is drastically decreasing nowadays; a foreigner who wants to speak on the streets of Kyiv should c...
- Someone told me most people mainly use Russian in everyday life and at home (which is what's relevant to this question), and Ukrainian in official...
- Both Ukrainian and Russian are commonly spoken in the city; approximately 75% of Kiev's population responded "Ukrainian" to the 2001 census questio...
- In Kiev and many other regions use of Ukrainian has been increasing and instruction in most schools is in Ukrainian. The percentage of people speak...
- From my three visits to Ukraine from Australia, I have found that in Kharkiv within Ukraine, everyone spoke Russian. When I asked various people if...
- My experience in late 2017 as someone who speaks neither language: learn the basic words/phrases in both. Start with Ukrainian and let the other p...
- All of the largest cities (over 300'000 population) in Ukraine speak Russian, except Lvov and Vinnitsa (50/50), while rural areas are divided, as s...
Mar 4, 2022 · The Russian version is "Kiev" (pronounced "kee-EV"). Kyiv or Kiev? Kiev was the internationally accepted English-language spelling through the Soviet period and into the first years of this...
Russian also remains the preferred language spoken in Kievan households, with 32% of the population speaking primarily Russian at home as opposed to the 27% who speak mostly Ukrainian. (40% switch between speaking Russian and Ukrainian at home).
As of 2022, 81% of the population of Ukraine speak the Ukrainian language in their personal life, at the same time 34% speak Russian, meaning that significant portion of Ukrainian residents constituting 19% of people speak both languages regularly. [2] 2001 national census.
