Summary
The Kurds in Ukraine (Ukrainian: Курди в Україні, romanized: Kurdy v Ukrayini, Kurdish: Kurdên Ûkraynayê) form a part of the historically significant Kurdish population in the post-Soviet space, and are located mainly in the southern and eastern parts of the country. They descend from migrants and refugees from the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) and have had a presence in Ukraine since the early 20th century.[1]
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,088 (2001 census)–25,000 (2004 estimation)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Crimea, Luhansk Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv | |
| Languages | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji), Ukrainian, Russian | |
| Religion | |
| Islam, Yezidism[2][3] |
History edit
The sharp population rise from 1989 to 2001, where the Kurdish population augmented from 238 to 2,088 was caused by the Spitak earthquake which shook the Kurdish areas of Armenia in 1988. Furthermore, the fall of the Soviet Union facilitated the migration of Kurds from the former Soviet Union to Ukraine. Most of these Kurds were from the Yezidi minority. Another wave of refugees came to Ukraine as a consequence of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1993, which occurred in the region which was historically known as Red Kurdistan. This wave of migration included both Muslim and Yezidi Kurds.[3]
| Year | Kurdish Population | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 0[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] | |||||||||||
| 1926 | 161 | |||||||||||
| 1939 | 901 | |||||||||||
| 1959 | 65 | |||||||||||
| 1970 | 117 | |||||||||||
| 1979 | 122 | |||||||||||
| 1989 | 238 | |||||||||||
| 2001 | 2,088 | |||||||||||
| 1Note: Includes Crimea which became part of Ukraine in 1954. | ||||||||||||
Language edit
In the 1989 Soviet Census, out of the 238 ethnic Kurds in Ukraine, 132 of them (55.5%) had Kurdish as first language, while 77 (32.3%) had Russian and 13 (5.5%) had Ukrainian.[15] The numbers for Kurdish and Ukrainian rose to 56% and 11% respectively in 2001.[13]
References edit
- ^ a b Sergey Grabovsky (13 August 2004). ""Ми український народ: національно-етнічна мозаїка": Курди та ассирійці в Україні". Radio Svoboda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Khana Omarkhali (2008). "On the Structure of the Yezidi Clan and Tribal System and its Terminology among the Yezidis of the Caucasus". The Journal of Kurdish Studies. VI: 104–119.
- ^ a b Момрик А. П. (2011). "Єзиди України (невідома діаспора)". Сходознавство. 53–54: 86–101.
- ^ "Demoscope - Kiev governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Podolia governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Poltava governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Kharkov governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Kherson governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Chernigov governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Volhynia governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Yekaterinoslav". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Demoscope - Taurida governorate". Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ a b "The distribution of the population by nationality and mother tongue". Statistics of Ukraine. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ "Distribution of the population by nationality and native language (2,3)". Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Кочан, Ірина (20 May 2016). "ПИТАННЯ ІНШОМОВНИХ ЗАПОЗИЧЕНЬ НА СТОРІНКАХ ЧАСОПИСУ "РІДНА МОВА"". Studia Ukrainica Posnaniensia. p. 69. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
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