Маленький принц — in Ukrainian language.
Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва), is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard Ukrainian language is regulated by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU), the Ukrainian language-information fund, and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics.
Historical linguists trace the origin of the Ukrainian language to Old East Slavic, a language of the early medieval state of Kievan Rus’. After the fall of the Kievan Rus’ as well as the Kingdom of Ruthenia, the language developed into a form called the Ruthenian language. Along with Ruthenian, in the territory of modern Ukraine, the Kyiv version (Kyiv Izvod) of Church Slavonic was also used in liturgical services. The Ukrainian language has been in common use since the late 17th century, associated with the establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate. From 1804 until the 1917-1921 Ukrainian War of Independence, the Ukrainian language was banned from schools in the Russian Empire.
