Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive

Re:Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive by sschueller on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:56PM (#30481883)

"Kyiv (/kiːv/ KEEV)[10][citation needed] or Kiev (/ˈkiːɛv/ KEE-ev;[11][12] Ukrainian: Київ, romanized: Kyïv, pronounced [ˈkɪjiu̯] ( listen)) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv

Both are correct and with 30% of Ukrainians speaking Russian they would pronounce it as Kiev.

This is like nit picking French Swiss saying Genève while German Swiss say Genf. Both are correct.

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Re:Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive by nezgar on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:09PM (#30558211)

This is a good article on the topic I came across today: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-pronunciation-kyiv-ukraine...

Boils down to that the Ukrainian vs Russian pronunciation is now political...

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Re:Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive by nezgar on Saturday February 26, 2022 @04:09PM (#30481990)

Well... Ukrainian is Ukraines official language, so it makes sense to me to use the spelling derived from the official & most widely spoken language of the country.

Unlike Switzerland which has three official languages.

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Re:Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive by sschueller on Saturday February 26, 2022 @05:50PM (#30482769)

We have 4 official languages and English is not one of them.

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