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.
The term Ukraine and Ukrainians are said to have derived from the Slavic term u-kraine meaning home-land. Ukrainians were once referred to as Russians or Ruthenians since the Russian and Ukrainian languages hadn't evolved at the time. History Edit Origins and Ancestry Edit