Afro-Ukrainians Explained

Group:Black Ukrainians
Popplace:Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa
Languages:Ukrainian Russian Igbo English French various Languages of South Africa (country)
Religions:Christianity, Islam, others

Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці, Ukrainian: Темношкірі Dark-skinned), are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine. Black Ukrainians are multi-lingual, knowing both Russian and Ukrainian in addition to their native languages, and are aware of the cultural conflict in Ukraine between the Ukrainian and Russian languages.[1] [2] [3] The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine, such as Kyiv.

Nehr

The Ukrainian word nehr (Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: [[:wikt:nègre#French|nègre]]||[[Negro]], itself a nativized loan from the Spanish; Castilian: negro and the Portuguese: negro.[4] unlike nègre is considered offensive in French, nehr/неɾр is not considered offensive. The native Slavic word for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) is chórnyy (Ukrainian: чо́рний).

Notable Afro-Ukrainians

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://forum.comments.ua/index.php?showtopic=90843 Afro-Ukrainians in Donetsk
  2. http://politiko.ua/blogpost41974 Lessons in Ukrainian
  3. http://gazeta.ua/articles/sogodennya/_v-donecku-temnoshkiri-prosili-matyuklivu-rosiyanku-vchiti-ukrayinsku-movu/537204 In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language
  4. Melnychuk (2003), Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.