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Iazychie (Ukrainian: Язичіє, Yazychiye) was an artificial language invented in nineteenth century by Ukrainian Russophiles to provide support for the theory that Ukrainian was a dialect of Russian. Iazychie was used in their publications in East Galicia until twentieth century, when it was replaced with Russian. The language was an artificial mixture of Russian and Church Slavonic with Ukrainian pronunciation and regionalisms.