Rusyn language
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| Rusyn русин rusin |
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|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukraine), eastern Slovakia, southern Poland, Hungary, northern Romania, Vojvodina | |
| Total speakers: | 610,120 [1] | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Slavic East Slavic Rusyn |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Vojvodina (Serbia) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sla | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | rue | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Rusyn is an East Slavic language (along with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian) close to Ukrainian that is spoken by the Rusyns. There is controversy among linguists concerning whether Rusyn is a separate East Slavic language or a dialect of Ukrainian [2].
It is spoken in the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine, in eastern Slovakia, southern Poland (where it is often called łemkowski 'Lemko', from their characteristic word lem/лєм 'only'), and Hungary. The Pannonian Rusyn language in Serbia is sometimes considered part of the Rusyn language, although some linguists consider that language to be West Slavic. In Ukraine, Rusyn is often considered a dialect of Ukrainian, as it is very close to the Hutsul dialect of Ukrainian, but speakers sometimes prefer to consider themselves distinct from Ukrainians.
Attempts to standardize the language suffer from its being divided between four countries, so that in each of these countries there has been devised a separate orthography (in each case with Cyrillic letters) and grammatical standard, based on different Rusyn dialects. The cultural centres of Carpatho-Rusyn are Prešov in Slovakia, Uzhhorod and Mukacheve in Ukraine, Krynica and Legnica in Poland, and Budapest in Hungary. Many very active Rusyns also live in Canada and the USA.
It is very difficult to count the speakers of Rusyn, but their number is sometimes estimated at almost a million, most of them in Ukraine and Slovakia. The first country to officially recognize Rusyn, more exactly Pannonian Rusyn, as an official language was former Yugoslavia. In 1995, Rusyn was recognized as a minority language in Slovakia, enjoying the status of official language in municipalities where more than 20% of the inhabitants speak Rusyn.
- The Rusyn language is divided as follows:
- Hutsul is spoken in the montaineous part of Suceava County and Maramures County in Romania and the extreme southern parts of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (as well as in parts of the Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian Oblasts, and on the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains.
- Boyko is spoken on the northern side of the Carpathian Mountains in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts. It can also be heard across the border in the Subcarpathian Voivodship of Poland
- Lemko is spoken outside Ukraine in the Prešov Region of Slovakia along the southern side of the Carpathian Mountains.
- Dolinian Rusyn or Subcarpathian Rusyn is spoken in the Transcarpathian Oblast.
- Pryashiv Rusyn is the Rusyn spoken in the Prešov (in Ukrainian: Pryashiv) region of Slovakia, as well as by some émigré communities, primarily in the United States of America.
- Bačka Rusyn is spoken in northwestern Serbia and eastern Croatia. Rusin language of the Bačka dialect is one of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina).
In the introduction to the book "Slavic languages," written in 1973, ten years before glasnost, Samuel Bernshtein writes about "western Ukrainians" and the "literary language" which they "until recently [i.e., 1973]" had.
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[edit] Alphabet
[edit] Lemko Rusyn Cyrillic alphabet
| Grapheme | IPA | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| А | /a/ | |
| Б | /b/ | |
| В | /v/ | |
| Г | /ɦ/ | |
| Ґ | /g/ | |
| Д | /d/ | |
| Е | /e/ | |
| Є | /je/ | |
| Ё | /ʏ/ | not present in Vojvodinian |
| Ж | /ʒ/ | |
| З | /z/ | |
| И | /ɪ/ | |
| І | /i/ | not present in Vojvodinian |
| Ы | /ɨ/ | not present in Vojvodinian |
| Ї | /ji/ | |
| Й | /j/ | |
| К | /k/ | |
| Л | /l/ | |
| М | /m/ | |
| Н | /n/ | |
| О | /o/ | |
| П | /p/ | |
| Р | /r/ | |
| С | /s/ | |
| Т | /t/ | |
| У | /u/ | |
| Ф | /f/ | |
| Х | /x/ | |
| Ц | /ts/ | |
| Ч | /ʧ/ | |
| Ш | /ʃ/ | |
| Щ | /ʃʧ/ | |
| Ѣ | /ji/,/i/ | Used before WWII |
| Ю | /ju/ | |
| Я | /ja/ | |
| Ь | /ʲ/ | marks preceding consonant's palatalization |
| Ъ | not present in Vojvodinian |
[edit] See also
[edit] Literature
- A new Slavic language is born. The Rusyn literary language in Slovakia. Ed. Paul Robert Magocsi. New York 1996.
- Magocsi, Paul Robert. Let's speak Rusyn. Бісідуйме по-руськы. Englewood 1976.
- Дуличенко, Александр Дмитриевич. Jugoslavo-Ruthenica. Роботи з рускей филолоґиї. Нови Сад 1995.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Rusyn language at the World Academy of Rusyn Culture
- Ethnologue report for Rusyn
- Руска Матка (Ruska Matka), the central cultural organization of the Pannonian Rusyns
- Transliterating Rusyn into the Latin alphabet
| Slavic languages | |||
| East Slavic | Belarusian | Old East Slavic † | Old Novgorod dialect † | Russian | Rusyn (Carpathians) | Ruthenian † | Ukrainian | ||
| West Slavic | Czech | Kashubian | Knaanic † | Lower Sorbian | Pannonian Rusyn | Polabian † | Polish | Pomeranian † | Slovak | Slovincian † | Upper Sorbian | ||
| South Slavic | Banat Bulgarian | Bulgarian | Church Slavic | Macedonian | Old Church Slavonic † | Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian, Bunjevac, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian) | Slavic (Greece) | Slovenian | ||
| Other | Proto-Slavic † | Russenorsk † | Slavoserbian † | Slovio | ||
| † Extinct | |||
