Jazyčie (язичіє) broadly refers to the hybrid literary norms propagated initially by the Greek Catholic clergy and later by proponents of the Russophile movement in the areas of Galicia, Transcarpathia, and Bukovyna from the early 18th to the early 20th centuries (Moser 2004: 124). Its pejorative connotation came about in the mid-19th century as the Ukrainophile movement and the vernacular Ukrainian standard took hold in Galicia (Danylenko 2016: 83–85).

The term jazyčie (язичіє) broadly refers to the hybrid literary norms propagated initially by the Greek Catholic clergy and late…