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The roundtable on language policy adopted a decision to establish a national linguistic infrastructure

On July 17, 2025, at the premises of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine), an interagency roundtable, “Conceptual Issues of Language Policy: Legal, Scientific, and Technological Aspects,” was held. The event was initiated by the National Commission on State Language Standards jointly with NAS of Ukraine, with the participation of the Ukrainian Lingua-Information Foundation of the NAS of Ukraine (ULIF), the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the National Center “Junior Academy of Sciences” of Ukraine.

The key outcome was support for the course toward creating a modern system of national linguistic resources and a linguistic infrastructure — the “Virtualized Intellectualized Language-Information Ecosystem ‘All-Ukrainian Linguistic Dialogue’” — to serve the needs of public policy, security, and the development of language technologies.

The purpose of the event was to form a shared vision of the legal, scientific, and technological foundations of state language policy under conditions of full-scale war and Russia’s information and humanitarian aggression, as well as to coordinate practical steps to strengthen the role of the Ukrainian language as a key factor in national security, resilience, and development.

February 21, 2025, a meeting of the International Scientific Seminar of the Ukrainian Lingua-Information Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine — “INFORMATION. LANGUAGE. INTELLIGENCE” — was held to mark International Mother Language Day.

Seminar theme:

“LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: ON THE WAY TO THE NOOSPHERE (Lexicographic Aspect)”

Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language in 20 volumes.–Volume Fourteen: PREFIKS — PIAT’.–Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2024. –1120 p.

Fifteenth volume of the Dictionary of the Ukrainian language in 20 volumes covers the widely used vocabulary of the modern Ukrainian language, widespread terms, dialecticisms, established phrases. The sources used in the dictionary reflect the vocabulary of fiction texts from the end of the XVIII century to the present day, Ukrainian translations of the Bible, folk art, journalism, popular science and science publications, language of the media, Internet etc.

We thank the Center for Ukrainian and European Scientific Cooperation (https://cuesc.org.ua/) for the opportunity to participate in international scientific conferences and scientific-pedagogical internships in European Union, to study the experience of higher education institutions and public administration entities in the field of education and science of the European Union on the organization of the educational process in higher education and research.

We support the new vector of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine towards integration of Ukrainian scientists and teachers into the European educational and scientific space.

We wish you fruitful participation and inspiration for the new projects’ implementation.
Let's change Ukraine for the better together!

We present a joint experience: https://lcorp.ulif.org.ua/InfoMediaVLL/

Together with our partners we present the developments of the Lingua-Information Fund of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language in 20 volumes.–Volume Fourteen: POKIS — PREFERENTSIYA.–Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2023. –1024 p.

Fourteenth volume of the Dictionary of the Ukrainian language in 20 volumes covers the widely used vocabulary of the modern Ukrainian language, widespread terms, dialecticisms, established phrases. The sources used in the dictionary reflect the vocabulary of fiction texts from the end of the XVIII century to the present day, Ukrainian translations of the Bible, folk art, journalism, popular science and science publications, language of the media, Internet etc.

Fourteenth volume of the dictionary contains 10281 dictionary entries.

Work on this edition was carried out in difficult wartime conditions and was possible only thanks to the unconditional dedication of the team of compilers and the use of the unique "Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language" virtual lexicographic laboratory created at the Foundation. The publication of the Dictionary has not only unique scientific and general cultural, but also political significance, because such a Dictionary, undoubtedly, has a great social weight as the main element of the National Dictionary base, which constitutes the national heritage of Ukraine, is one of its national symbols and evidence of the indomitability of the Ukrainian spirit.

From the resolution of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (20.03.1991 No 90/26A) on the establishment of the Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund of the NAS of Ukraine by reorganizing Potebnia Institute of Linguistics and the Scientific Information Department of the Institute of Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences — to the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (04.12.2020 No 1528) "On the Results of Scientific Institutions State Certification", which approved classification group I (world-class institution) to Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund — 30 YEARS!

Three decades under the constant super-successful scientific and organizational leadership of its founder and director, our dear academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Shyrokov. Three decades of unique language and information scientific research: