Ukrainian has almost no serious digital tooling for learners. I started building it.
Thread one is a lemma-based frequency list: 12,000 lemmas ranked over 1.5 billion word tokens. The most non-obvious output isn't the list itself, it's the coverage curves. They show empirically how slowly reading comprehension accrues when a language inflects as heavily as Ukrainian does. That's the kind of thing a learner needs to know before they build a study plan.
Published as versioned, hashed CSV and JSON, plus an Anki deck. CC-BY, open for anyone to build on.
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency
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