Afro-Ukrainians

Afro-Ukrainians

Afro-Ukrainians

Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent

Afro-Ukrainians or Black Ukrainians (Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці, Ukrainian: Темношкірі Dark-skinned), are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine. Black Ukrainians are multi-lingual, knowing both Russian and Ukrainian in addition to their native languages, and are aware of the cultural conflict in Ukraine between the Ukrainian and Russian languages.[1][2][3] The population of Afro-Ukrainians is rather small and is mostly concentrated in the major cities of Ukraine, such as Kyiv.

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Gaitana, an Afro-Ukrainian singer
Zhan Beleniuk, left, member of the Ukrainian Parliament with Ukrainian President, right, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Okurut Steven, lead vocalist of Band Chornobryvtsi

History

Nehr

The Ukrainian word nehr (Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: nègre, lit. 'Negro', itself a nativized loan from the Spanish: negro and the Portuguese: negro.[4] unlike nègre is considered offensive in French, nehr/неɾр is not considered offensive. The native Slavic word for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) is chórnyy (Ukrainian: чо́рний).

Notable Afro-Ukrainians

References

  1. [1]
    Afro-Ukrainians in Donetsk Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine. comments.ua. January 20, 2014
  2. [2]
    Lessons in Ukrainian. politiko.
  3. [3]
    In Donetsk dark-skinned asked the bad-mannered Russian to study Ukrainian language. Gazeta in Ukrainian. January 20, 2014
  4. [4]
    Melnychuk (2003), Etymolohichnyi slovnyk Ukraïnsʹkoï movy (Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, p 63.
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