Vocative case
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In grammar, the vocative case is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person being addressed or occasionally for the noun modifiers of that noun. A noun of address is an expre
Sign at Aberystwyth University in Welsh displaying use of the vocative case – myfyrwyr 'students' mutated to fyfyrwyr
Ukrainian language
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Ukrainian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language of a large majority of Ukrainians.
Vocative case
…Another stamp of vernacular vocative is emerging, presumably under the influence of Hungarian for certain family members or proper names: Ukrainian has retained the vocative case mostly as it was in Proto-Slavic: There are some exceptions…
"Lenten Triodion" of Kiev Metropolitan Petro Mohyla, 1646
While Russian was a de facto official language of the Soviet Union in all but formal name, all national languages were proclaimed equal. The name and denomination of Soviet banknotes were listed in the languages of all fifteen Soviet republics. On this 1961 1 Rbl note, the Ukrainian for "one rouble", один карбованець (odyn karbovanetsʹ), directly follows the Russian один рубль (odin rublʹ).
2007 sign in the Kyiv Metro in Ukrainian. The evolution in their language followed the changes in the language policies in post-war Ukraine. Originally, all signs and voice announcements in the metro were in Ukrainian, but their language was changed to Russian in the early 1980s, at the height of Shcherbytsky's gradual Russification. In the perestroika liberalization of the late 1980s, the signs were changed to bilingual. This was accompanied by bilingual voice announcements in the trains. In the early 1990s, both signs and voice announcements were changed again from bilingual to Ukrainian-only during the
Ukrainian language traffic sign for the Ivan Franko Museum in Kryvorivnia