Poleshuks

Poleshuks
Poleshuks from Kobryn (1916)
Regions with significant populations
 Ukraine9,000[1][2]
 Belarus14,000[3]
Languages
West Polesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Belarusians, Ukrainians, Podlashuks

The Poleshuks,[1] also known as Polesians (Ukrainian: поліщуки, romanizedpolishchuky, Belarusian: палешукі, romanizedpaleshuki, Russian: полещуки, romanizedpoleshchuki, Polish: Poleszucy) are the indigenous population of Polesia (also known as Polesie and Polissia).[1] Their native speech forms a dialect continuum between the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages and includes recently codified West Polesian, as well as many local variations and sub-dialects.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Christopher Lord; Olga Strietska-Ilina (2001). Parallel Cultures: Majority/minority Relations in the Countries of the Former Eastern Bloc. Ashgate. "Poleshuks"; pp. 197-198, 202. ISBN 0754616169. Poleshuk leaders emphasised that the best possible territorial and political arrangement of the Ukrainian state for Poleshuks would be a Federation with a high degree of decentralisation.
  2. ^ Етнографічні групи: поліщуки (з українською самосвідомістю) Державний комітет статистики України.
  3. ^ Население по национальности и родному языку Population by nationality and native language
  4. ^ Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (2012). Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas. Transaction Publishers. p. 493. ISBN 978-1412847742. Retrieved 10 October 2015.