Ksenofont Klymkovyč und die zweite ukrainische Erneuerungsbewegung
Ksenofont Klymkovyč and the Second Ukrainian Renewal Movement

Summary/Abstract: One of the crucial points in the history of the Ukrainian language (especially in Galicia) is the second half of the nineteenth century. While until the 1860s a conservative group has been dominant in the Galician-Ukrainian society, from this time on the so-called Narodovtsi emerged and step by step took over the leading position. Referring to the works of the Rus’ka Trijcja, Fedor Zarevyč, Volodymyr Šaškevyč and Ksenofont Klymkovyč tried to popularize a literary language on the basis of the spoken idioms. Beyond that, and here lies the main point of their work, they tried to unify the different parts of the Ukrainian territories, not only through literature, but as well as through a new concept of language, that clearly favoured Eastern Ukrainian dialects. Compared to many of his successors, Klymkovyč avoided most of the characteristic West-Ukrainian language features.

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