Question

підготувати розповідь про основні факти України на англійській мові​

Answer 1

1. The first Constitution in the world was created by Ukrainian Philip Orlyk. April 5, 1710 he was elected hetman of the Zaporozhian army. On the same day, he proclaimed the "Constitution of Rights and Freedoms of the Zaporozhian Army." In the United States the Constitution was adopted in 1787, in France and Poland only in 1791.
2. In 1934, in Paris, at the beauty contest of languages, the Ukrainian language took third place after French and Persian in such criteria as phonetics, vocabulary, phraseology, sentence structure. Ukrainian melody is recognized as the second most beautiful among the world's languages, after Italian.
3. Ukrainian is one of the most widely spoken languages ​​in the world (experts distinguish about 7,000 languages) and ranks 26th in the number of speakers. It is also the second most common language of Slavic origin after Russian. More than 32 million people in Ukraine speak Ukrainian fluently.
4. The most commonly used letter in the Ukrainian alphabet is the letter "n". The largest number of words also begins with this letter. At the same time, the least used letter of the Ukrainian alphabet is "f". In the Ukrainian language, words that begin with this letter are in most cases borrowed from other languages.
5. In terms of vocabulary, the closest to the Ukrainian language are Belarusian (84%) and Polish (70%).
6. The word "hand" is most often used among nouns, among verbs - "to be", adjectives - "big", pronouns - "he". The last places in the frequency table are occupied by the words "mutation", "eggplant", "radio operator", "squirrel".
7. The longest musical instrument in the world is the Ukrainian trembita. Its length can reach four meters, and its sounds can be heard for more than ten kilometers.
8. 1/4 of all chernozem reserves on the planet are concentrated on the territory of Ukraine. Chernozem soils, when properly cultivated, give the highest yields and are very valuable. During World War II, German soldiers even took chernozem out by train.
9. The first printed primer published by a Ukrainian author was entitled "The Science of Reading and Understanding Slavic Writing". He was born in Vilnius (modern Vilnius) in 1596 through the efforts of Lawrence Zizani. A dictionary containing 1,061 words was added to the book.
10. The first primer published in Ukraine was "Alphabet" ("Alphabet"), published in 1574 in Lviv by the first printer Ivan Fedorov. The book consisted of an alphabet, syllables, samples of declension and a short reading book. We have only one copy, which was found in Rome in 1927. Stored in the library of Harvard University (USA). The facsimile edition was made in Kyiv in 1964 and 1974.