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Presenting the linguistic problems of the ULB region in only a few pages is all the more difficult because it brings into play not only the native languages (if this term even has a meaning) but also— in particular if one wants to treat these problems in the only manner that will shed light on them, that of the long-term perspective—the languages of the two principal neighbors (Polish and Russian) as well as languages such as Yiddish, dead languages used in the religions of these peoples (Slavonic, Latin, Hebrew), not to mention frequent interferences from German, French, some Scandinavian languages, and Romanian. From this multiplicity flows another complexity that also relates to a more general problem: are the politics or policies of the language the factor that ultimately determines whether or not this language predominates?
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A. Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism of the 1990s, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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A. Martel, La langue polonaise dans les pays ruthènes 1569–1667 (The Polish Language in the Ruthenian Countries, 1569–1667) Lille, University Press 1938.
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Beauvois, D. (2004). Linguistic Acculturations and Reconstructions in the ULB Group (Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus). In: Judt, T., Lacorne, D. (eds) Language, Nation and State: Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982452_9
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