A pejorative meaning of the word began to develop in the Viking Age, but is clearest in the medieval Icelandic sagas, written two or three centuries later â in the 1300s and 1400s.
The Ukrainian is a cyrillic alphabet, not latin, so it is similar to other Eastern Slavic alphabets (including Russian). While many letters are similar, most slavic languages have letters that are unique to their alphabets. The Russian alphabet includes such letters as Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, Ñ, the Ukranian one doesn't include these letters.
Long story. 1  Russian is the most used language in streets and families of Kyiv; Calculation Method: if you simply take a group of people and count languages they speak in their family, you will notice that: Nearly 100% of those who speak Ukrainian would also have a good grasp of Russian.