The Sound of the Dobrudja Ukrainian "Khokhol" dialect (Numbers, Greetings, Words, & Sample Text)

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let&learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet. Special Thanks to Alin :D Voice: Mira Balan I want to share with you the dialect spoken in my village (I speak it sometimes, too), an old and unknown Ukrainian dialect from the Romanian region of Dobrudja. It&called "Khokhol dialect" ("Khakhlatskiy jazyk"). The name of the dialect, "Khokhol", was actually a derogatory term for Ukrainians, addressed by Russians, but for us, Dobrudjan Ukrainians is a term of self-identification and differentiation from the another Slavic ethnic group in Romanian Dobrudja, the Russian Old Believers (Lipovans). This term refers to specific topknot worn by Zaporozhian Cossacks, our ancestors. We are the descendants of the glorious Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks, whose Zaporozhian Sich was destroyed in 1775 at the order of Russian Czarina Catherine II. After the destruction, the Zaporozhians who didn&want to suffer serious political and social penalties took refuge in the Danube Delta and Northern Dobrudja, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. In the village of Verkhiy Dunavets (now Dunavățu de Sus), they established the last Zaporozhian Sich in the world, Transdanubian Sich, which functioned until 1828. After that, the Cossacks transformed into peaceful "Khokhols" (Ukrainians) who practiced fishing, agriculture, and animal husbandry.