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Within Ukraine, rural dialects in the western regions are often colloquially (though technically inaccurately) called a Polish-Ukrainian surzhyk due to heavy Polish influence; however, linguists distinguish these regional dialects from the Russification patterns of the central and eastern surzhyk. While the word almost exclusively means Ukrainian-Russian mixing when used within Russia, the term in Ukraine can refer to the blending of Ukrainian with any other language but still mainly refers to the mixing

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