Linguistic and ethnic division in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 16th century Tags:Europe 8 comments Colours are too similar and create an incorrect impression that Estonians and Latvians are related ethnic groups. lemkos are ukrainian. true, true “General, send in the Inflanty!” It looks like a made-up map. Ukrainian and Belarusian did not diverge at that time, yet. People spoke dialects of Ruthenian with no clear-cut borders. Can you really tell Ukrainian or Belorussian language existed back then? These groups back then were just forming. And Old-Prussians were still around at that time – that’s interesting PLC was fucking big at its peak. Wasn’t both Zamość and Lwów dominated by Poles by that point? Zamość in Particular. Also mentioned a lot here, there was no clear distinction between Belarussian and Ukrainian yet. Polish Latvian Lithuanian Estonian Belarusian German Ukrainian Old Prussian Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
Colours are too similar and create an incorrect impression that Estonians and Latvians are related ethnic groups.
It looks like a made-up map. Ukrainian and Belarusian did not diverge at that time, yet. People spoke dialects of Ruthenian with no clear-cut borders.
Can you really tell Ukrainian or Belorussian language existed back then? These groups back then were just forming. And Old-Prussians were still around at that time – that’s interesting
Wasn’t both Zamość and Lwów dominated by Poles by that point? Zamość in Particular. Also mentioned a lot here, there was no clear distinction between Belarussian and Ukrainian yet.
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Colours are too similar and create an incorrect impression that Estonians and Latvians are related ethnic groups.
lemkos are ukrainian. true, true
“General, send in the Inflanty!”
It looks like a made-up map. Ukrainian and Belarusian did not diverge at that time, yet. People spoke dialects of Ruthenian with no clear-cut borders.
Can you really tell Ukrainian or Belorussian language existed back then? These groups back then were just forming.
And Old-Prussians were still around at that time – that’s interesting
PLC was fucking big at its peak.
Wasn’t both Zamość and Lwów dominated by Poles by that point? Zamość in Particular.
Also mentioned a lot here, there was no clear distinction between Belarussian and Ukrainian yet.
Polish Latvian
Lithuanian Estonian
Belarusian German
Ukrainian Old Prussian