Dialect comparison

Bukovinian vs Surzhyk

Compare two dialects of Ukrainian side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Bukovinian

Bukovyna Ukrainian · Pokuttia–Bukovinian

The Southwestern Ukrainian variety of the Bukovyna region around Chernivtsi. Shaped by long contact with Romanian, German, and Polish under Habsburg rule.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
48.29°, 25.94°
Surzhyk

The Russian-Ukrainian mixed colloquial register, widely spoken across central and eastern Ukraine. Treated by linguists as a code-mixing continuum rather than a fixed dialect.

Approximate centre
48.46°, 35.04°

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