PARTICIPATION OF UKRAINIAN LINGUISTS IN MAKING THE UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917 – 1920

Oksana Danylevska
PhD in Philology, Researcher of the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Е-mail: od3556261@gmail.com

Heading: Researches
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article analyzes the main directions of the language policy of the Tsentralna Rada, Hetman Government and Directoria of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the participation of Ukrainian linguists – I. Ogienko, the Minister of Education in the Government of the Directoria of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, the Chairman of the Spelling Commission in the Ministry of Education; A. Krymsky, the Chairman of the Terminological Commission at the State Chancellery during Hetman Government in the processes of making the Ukrainian language official language.

An analysis of the activities of the national governments during Ukrainian Revolution certifies that the principles of the then language policy evolved synchronously with the expansion of revolutionary events. The status of the Ukrainian language during the period from 1917 to 1920 evolved significantly.

As a part of status planning in the analyzed period, introduction of the Ukrainian language as a state language was envisaged in public administration, education and culture. Measures introduced by the governments facilitated assignment of official status to the Ukrainian language with significant expansion of its functional capabilities.

As a manifestation of the state linguistic policy it is necessary to qualify the activities of the ministerial terminological commissions as well as the Terminological Commission at the State Chancellery, the Spelling Terminology Commission in the Ukrainian People’s Republic, state-initiated publication of terminological dictionaries and circular instructions on the use of the Ukrainian language in the recordkeeping.

A conclusion was made concerning consistency and continuity of the language policy of Ukrainian governments of the aforementioned era notwithstanding differences in the domestic political life of those years.

Keywords: language policy, status planning, corpus planning, official language, history of Ukrainian linguistics.

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