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On July 28, 2023, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed Decree No. 455/2023, according to which the date of the celebration of the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language was moved from November 9 to October 27.
The date of the holiday has changed due to the decision of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) to switch to the new church calendar, according to which the dates of the holidays are shifted by 13 days. The Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language is traditionally celebrated on the day of commemoration of Venerable Nestor the Chronicler (writer-hagiographer, the first historian of Kyivan Rus, thinker, scientist, monk of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery), whose name is associated with the beginning of the written Ukrainian language.
Traditionally, before this holiday, many events are held in Ukraine and abroad to popularize the Ukrainian language, among which is the All-Ukrainian radio dictation of national unity. On this day, many Ukrainians who want to test their knowledge of grammar participate in writing dictation. Representatives of other nations who, as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine, have begun to study our language also write dictation.
The Ukrainian language ranks second after Italian in terms of melodiousness, third in terms of its beauty and rich vocabulary, after French and Persian.
The poet-lyricist Volodymyr Sosyura found wonderful epithets describing Ukraine, its language, its beauty: my Ukraine is cherry, its language is a nightingale, because there is no song more beautiful than that of a nightingale. The most subtle feelings and experiences of the heart and soul can be conveyed in Ukrainian. And that’s why we look at the world a little differently, trying to be kinder, more cordial. Our Anatolii Solovyanenko and other artists incomparably conveyed these feelings in their singing.
Let’s nurture and protect our language – it is our only, our native language!
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