Poleshuks

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Poleshuks

Poleshuks from Kobryn (1916)
Regions with significant populations
Ukraine	9,000[1][2]
Belarus	14,000[3]
Languages
West Polesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Belarusians, Ukrainians, Podlashuks

The Poleshuks,^[1] also known as Polesians (Ukrainian: поліщуки, romanized: polishchuky, Belarusian: палешукі, romanized: paleshuki, Russian: полещуки, romanized: poleshchuki) 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]

History

Since the

At the end of the 1980s, there was a minor campaign in Soviet Byelorussia for the creation of a standard written language for the dialect based on the dialects of Polesia launched by Belarusian writer Nikolai Shelyagovich and his associates as part of his activities for the recognition of Poleshuks as a separate ethnicity and for their autonomy. However, they received almost no support and the campaign eventually melted away.^[7]

See also

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• Polekhs
• Podlashuks
• Tutejszy

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