Die Sprache der ukrainischen Emigrationspresse in Argentinien
The language of the Ukrainian emigration press in Argentina

Summary/Abstract: This study reveals the peculiarities of the language spoken by Ukrainian immigrants to Argentina, investigates the historical and socio-economic reasons of the Ukrainian immigration and remigration from the end of the 19th century until the nineties of the 20th century. It describes and systematizes the regional origin, the circumstances, and the location where the immigrants settled as well as their organized public life in that country. The paper, which is based on Ukrainian mass media in Argentina of the thirties of the 20th century, affords a detailed language analysis of its morphology, grammar and lexical base, which confirms that the Ukrainian language spoken in Argentina at the time, demonstrates through some dialectal features its West Ukrainian origin.

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