Poleschuken
Poleschuken ( Ukrainian Поліщуки , Belarusian Палешукі Poleszucy ) are the names of the members of a group of Eastern Slavs . They live mainly in Polesia as well as in western Ukraine . In Ukraine they are counted among the Ukrainians .
The peripheral location of the Poleshuk area against the Ukrainians and Belarusians , their isolation from the political and industrial centers of Ukraine and Belarus, low urbanization and other factors resulted in a considerable amount of customs being preserved in culture and everyday life .
Poleshukes showed the influence of community traditions more than residents of other regions of Ukraine. The community distributed common land, regulated the use of common pastures, forests, meadows, fishing and hunting grounds, controlled the time and type of agricultural work and followed the implementation of the usual legal norms.
language
Polessian is an East Slavic dialect that has features of a transition language between Ukrainian and Belarusian . Polessian has no official status in any state and is used almost exclusively for private communication.
Web links
- Entry on Poleshuks in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Poleschuken in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Aleksandr D. Duličenko: West Polesian. In: Miloš Okuka (Ed.): Lexicon of the Languages of the European East . (= Wieser Encyclopedia of the European East , Volume 10). Wieser, Klagenfurt 2002, ISBN 3-85129-510-2 , pp. 581-587.