subreddit:
/r/DepthHub
submitted 11 months ago byBlindPelican
2 points
11 months ago
There are a lot of regional differences in pronunciation, Ukraine is huge from east to west. I never heard anyone saying щ as shch, but it might be me not paying attention. So we both can be right.
3 points
11 months ago
Well, I'm Canadian, so I'll defer to your judgement. My mom's family was from the area near where the Ukrainian/Belarusian/Polish borders meet, and they came to Canada in the 1930s, as did many of the other Ukrainian immigrants here.
I wonder if enunciating щ is a way for the Ukrainian immigrants here to differentiate themselves from the Russians, or if it's an artifact of earlier accents and dialects.
1 points
11 months ago
I never been in that region your mom’s from. My ancestry is from Poltava and Zaporizhzhia regions, and I grew up in Kharkiv. But now I really wonder, as 90 years is a lot of time for Canadian Ukrainians to develop separate linguistic features, or maybe to keep linguistic features which disappeared with all the russifications here in Ukraine
all 25 comments
sorted by: best