LANGUAGE VS IDEOLOGY IN UKRAINE IN 16TH–17TH CENTURY

The period of the 16th–17th c. is time of the largest intensity of reforming movements in Ukraine, which were both perceived from West and partially from East and also created on native basic. Reforming movements in every country contained their specific content. Special kind of social movement, specific to "north Renaissance" has formed in Ukraine and related culture was born. It contains revival of medieval mentality merged with adoption of several achievements of Renaissance and Reformation with new specific Baroque phenomenons, raised both from outlined synthesis and completely new. This difficult period of development of Ukraine is characterized by O. Zilinskiy as epoch of the largest dying of material substation of nation, but the epoch of the first synthesis of it’s spiritual forces. It’s discovered, that several representatives of Ukrainian nobility paid great efforts in order to develop Ukrainian language, culture, education and organization of publishing of books on Ukrainian territory. Language divercity in Ukraine in 16th–17th c. impresses and witnesses tolerance of nation. Ukrainian (Rusin), Church Slavic (Slavic), Greek, Latin, Jewish, Armenian, Turkish, Kipchak-Tatarian, Polish, German, Hungary, Italian, French languages were widely spreaded. I. Farion considers, that distribution of language usage was the next: main role of language of state and literature was played by Polish language, Latin language was used in science and judiciary, Church Slavic as sacrificial and mystic language, and national language was only started it’s way to prestigious areas of life. The main trend of Ukrainian literature language in 16th c. was it’s establishment on vernacular basic; literary Ukrainian language until the middle of 16th c. even squeezed Slavic language in genre of confessional literature. The limits and spheres of functioning of many languages were forced by bunch of factors, and the most important of them was confessional. A Ukrainian in 16th–17th c. has the difficult choice: which of familiar to him languages to use. This choice was defined by juridical, political, historical, ethnic and other factors. The language issue ceases to be a purely linguistic issue and becomes a political, social and cultural one.