According to the Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has
2. According to the Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, the difference between a language and a dialect is that a language has ______________________________.
3. What percent of the Ukrainian and Russian lexicon differs, in comparison to percent of the Spanish and Italian lexicon difference?
4. Linguistically (and culturally), what are the implications of using either drevnerusskiy yazyk or davn’orus’kamova to identify Old East Slavic, the language that generally is agreed to have been the origin of the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages?
6. Under Soviet rule, the language of economic and social mobility in Ukraine had become __________, while the _________________ language was assigned the status of a ‘rural’ language.
7. When Victor Yuschenko was prime minister of Ukraine, he insisted on speaking Ukrainian to Vladimir Putin and to understand what was being said, Putin needed a ___________________.
8. . In February 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament vetoed legislation that had granted Russian official-language status in many part of the country. Putin used this as one of the excuses to do what?