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'''Ukrainian''' (Ukrainian: Українська) is an [[Eastern Slavonic]] language. It is closely related to [[Russian]] and [[Belarusian]], but it is distinctly different than these languages. The 33 letters are in the [[Cyrillic alphabet]]. It is spoken as the state language in [[Ukraine]], and it is used in many other countries including [[Argentina]], [[Armenia]], [[Australia]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Belarus]], [[Brazil]], [[Canada]], [[Estonia]], [[Georgia]], [[Hungary]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Moldova]], [[Paraguay]], [[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Russia]] and [[Slovakia]]. Under Russian and [[Soviet]] rule, the Ukrainian language was suppressed due to the attempted [[Russification]] of everything Ukrainian. A Tsarist decree in 1876 banned the printing or importing of Ukrainian language books in Ukraine. Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, Ukrainian has been the state language<ref>http://http://www.rada.kiev.ua/const/const1.htm</ref>, yet many Russians in Ukraine refuse to speak the official Language. Ukrainian is, however, the language of the majority<ref>http://ukrcensus.gov.ua/rus/results/general/language/city_kyiv/</ref>. Ukrainian is mainly used in the Western part of the country. There are several [[dialects]] of Ukrainian spoken today<ref>http://litopys.org.ua/ukrmova/um156.htm</ref>