title: Українська мова як фактор національної безпеки
abstract: Based on the foreign sociolinguistic studies, the paper clears up the social and psychological processes in the situation of mass bilingualism formed under colonial dependence of the country. The consequence of imperial assimilation policy is the language split of the population in Ukraine that has a territorial dimension.
  The historical reasons for the formation of significant local linguistic and cultural differences in Ukraine, including the division of the country into the Ukrainian speakin