Rusyn language

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Rusyn
русиньский язык, русиньска бесїда rusyn’skyj jazyk, rusyn’ska besjida
Region Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic
Native speakers

620,000  (2000–2006)[1]
Census population: 70,000. These are numbers from national official bureaus for statistics:

  • Slovakia – 33,482[2]
  • Serbia – 15,626[3]
  • Ukraine – 6,725[4]
  • Poland – 10,000[5]
  • Croatia – 2,337[6]
  • Hungary – 1,113[7]
  • Czech Republic – 777[8]
Official status
Official language in

 Vojvodina [9]

Minority language:
 Croatia
 Poland
 Romania
 Serbia
 Slovakia
Language codes
ISO 639-3 rue
Linguasphere 53-AAA-ec < 53-AAA-e
(varieties: 53-AAA-eca to 53-AAA-ecc)
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Rusyn (Rusyn: русиньска бесїда or русиньскый язык[10]), also known in English as Ruthene (sometimes Ruthenian), is an East Slavic language variety spoken by the Rusyns of Eastern Europe. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language[11] and it has its own ISO 639–3 code; some Ukrainian scholars treat it as a dialect of Ukrainian.[12] Each categorisation has controversial political implications.

Geographical distribution

A map of the "United States of Greater Austria" proposed before World War I; the main Rusyn region, referred to here as Ruthenia, is coloured light green, in the upper right corner.
Official usage of Pannonian Rusyn language in Vojvodina, Serbia.

Rusyn, or more specifically Carpatho-Rusyn) is a vernacular spoken in: the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine; northeastern Slovakia; in Vojvodina, Serbia; southeastern Poland, where the Rusyn dialect is generally known as Łemkowski, after the characteristic word лем/lem (meaning "only", "but" and "like"); Hungary (where the people and language are called Ruszin) and; northern Maramureș, Romania, where the people are called Ruteni and the language Ruteană.

Classification

The classification and identification of the Rusyn language is historically and, especially, politically problematic. Prior to World War I, Rusyns were recognized as the Ruthenes of Galicia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand had planned to recognize them as one of the ten states of a planned United States of Greater Austria before his assassination. After the war, Austria-Hungary was partitioned, and Ruthenia was appended to the new Czechoslovak state as its easternmost province. With the advent of World War II, Ruthenia declared its independence, lasting one day, until its annexation by Hungary. After the war, the Ruthenes of Czechoslovakia, occupied by Hungary, were annexed by Ukraine, which proceeded with an anti-ethnic assimilation program. Poland did the same, using internal exile to move all Rusyns from the southern homelands to western areas conquered from Germany, and immersed in Polish.

Scholars with the former Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow (now the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) formally re-acknowledged Rusyn as a separate language in 1992, and trained specialists to study the language.[13] These studies were financially supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Ukrainian politicians do not recognise Rusyns as a separate ethnicity, regardless of Rusyn self-identification. Ukraine officially considers Rusyn a dialect of Ukrainian, related to the Hutsul dialect of Ukrainian. However, many Hutsuls also identify themselves as ethnic Rusyns.

Attempts to standardise variants of Rusyn have been unsuccessful. Rusyns live in four countries, and efforts are hampered because Rusyns living outside the traditional home region often do not speak the language fluently. Different orthographies have been developed (in most cases using variants of the Cyrillic script), and a number of different grammatical standards exist,[14] based on regional dialects.

It is not possible to estimate accurately the number of fluent speakers of Rusyn; however, their number is estimated at almost a million, primarily living in Ukraine and Slovakia.

Serbia has recognized Rusyn, more precisely Pannonian Rusyn in Vojvodina, as an official minority language.[15] Since 1995, Rusyn has been recognized as a minority language in Slovakia, enjoying the status of an official language in municipalities where more than 20 percent of the inhabitants speak Rusyn.[16]

Rusyn is listed as a protected language by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia and Romania.

Grammars and codification

The Rusyn dialect was codified as a language in Vojvodina region of Yugoslavia in 1923 and in Slovakia in 1995.[17] Early grammars include Dmytrij Vyslockij's (Дмитрий Вислоцкий) Карпаторусский букварь (Karpatorusskij bukvar') Vanja Hunjanky (1931)[18] and Metodyj Trochanovskij's Буквар. Перша книжечка для народных школ. (Bukvar. Perša knyžečka dlja narodnŷch škol.) (1935).[19][20]

Dialects

The Carpatho Rusyn language can be divided as follows:

Name Language area Annotation
Hutsul In the mountainous part of Suceava County and Maramureș County in Romania and the extreme southern parts of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine (as well as in parts of the Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian Oblasts), and on the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains.
Boyko Northern side of the Carpathian Mountains in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts of Ukraine. It can also be heard across the border in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (province) of Poland
Lemko Outside Ukraine in the Prešov Region of Slovakia along the southern side of the Carpathian Mountains. It was formerly spoken on the northern side of the same mountains, in what is now southeastern Poland, prior to Operation Vistula – now used in several diaspora communities scattered in northern Poland Being revived; in Poland it has the status of an ethnic minority language. A newspaper, Karpatska Rus' has been published in this dialect since 1939.
Dolinian Rusyn Transcarpathian Oblast of Ukraine.
Subcarpathian Rusyn
Pryashiv Rusyn The Prešov Region (in Rusyn: "Пряшів" Pryashiv) of Slovakia, as well as by some émigré communities, primarily in the United States of America.
Pannonian Rusyn Northwestern Serbia and eastern Croatia One of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
Bačka

Boiko, Hutsul, Lemko and Dolinian are identified (and for the same speakers) as Ukrainian dialects since most of their speakers identify themselves as Ukrainians.

Alphabet

Letters and symbols of the Carpatho-Rusyn alphabet
Capital Small Name Translit. Pronunciation Notes
А а a a /a/
Б б бы b /b/
В в вы v /v/
Г г гы h /ɦ/
Ґ ґ ґы g /ɡ/
Д д ды d /d/
Е е e e /e/
Є є є je /je/
Ё ё ё jo /jo/ not present in Pannonian Rusyn
Ж ж жы ž /ʒ/
З з зы z /z/
И и и y /ɪ/
І і i i /i/ not present in Pannonian Rusyn
Ы ы ы y /ɨ/
Ї ї ї ji /ji/
Й й йы j /j/
К к кы k /k/
Л л лы l /l/
М м мы m /m/
Н н ны n /n/
О о o o /o/
П п пы p /p/
Р р ры r /r/
С с сы s /s/
Т т ты t /t/
У у у u /u/
Ф ф фы f /f/
Х х хы x, ch /x/
Ц ц цы c /t͡s/
Ч ч чы č /t͡ʃ/
Ш ш шы š /ʃ/
Щ щ щы šč /ʃt͡ʃ/
Ѣ ѣ їть /ji/, /i/ Used before World War II
Ю ю ю ju /ju/
Я я я ja /ja/
Ь ь мнягкый знак (ірь) ’ /ʲ/ marks preceding consonant's palatalization
Ъ ъ твердый знак (ір) ” not present in Pannonian Rusyn


Newspapers

  • Karpatska Rus'
  • Русинська бесіда
  • Народны новинкы
  • Podkarpatská Rus – Подкарпатська Русь ("")
  • Amerikansky Russky Viestnik †
  • Lemko (Philadelphia, USA) †
  • Руснаци у Швеце – Rusnaci u Svece [21]

See also

Rusyn edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

References

  1. ↑ Rusyn reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ↑ Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. "Population and Housing Census 2011: Table 11. Resident population by nationality – 2011, 2001, 1991". Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Retrieved 22 March 2012. 
  3. ↑ Republic of Serbia, Republic Statistical Office (24 December 2002). "Final results of the census 2002". Retrieved 16 December 2010. 
  4. ↑ State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. "About number and composition population of UKRAINE by data All-Ukrainian population census 2001 data". Retrieved 16 December 2010. 
  5. ↑ "Home". Central Statistical Office of Poland. Retrieved 22 March 2012. 
  6. ↑ "Republic of Croatia – Central Bureau of Statistics". Crostat. Retrieved 5 September 2010. 
  7. ↑ "1.28 Population by mother tongue, nationality and sex, 1900–2001". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. 2001. Retrieved 28 February 2012. 
  8. ↑ "Obyvatelstvo podle věku, mateřského jazyka a pohlaví". Retrieved 2 November 2012. 
  9. ↑ "The Statue of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina". Skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs. Retrieved 2012-08-07. 
  10. ↑ Alternative names are used in different Ruthenian areas, like руска бешеда, rusinščina or even język łemkowski (in southeastern Poland etc. None of them are more academic than another, due to non-recognition of the language.
  11. ↑ Bernard Comrie, "Slavic Languages," International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (1992, Oxford, Vol 3, pp. 452–456.
    Ethnologue, 16th edition
  12. ↑ George Y. Shevelov, "Ukrainian," The Slavonic Languages (1993, Routledge, pp. 947–998.
  13. ↑ Іван Гвать. "Україна в лещатах російських спецслужб". Radiosvoboda.org. Retrieved 2012-08-07. 
  14. ↑ Rusyn grammar rules – Ябур, Василь – Плїшкова, Анна: Русиньскый язык в зеркалї новых правил про основны і середнї школы з навчанём русиньского языка. Пряшів : Русин і Народны новинкы, 2005, 128 s.
  15. ↑ "Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina". Skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs. Retrieved 2012-08-07. 
  16. ↑ Slovenskej Republiky, Národná Rada (1999). "Zákon 184/1999 Z. z. o používaní jazykov národnostných menšín" (in Slovak). Zbierka zákonov. Retrieved 2010-05-18. 
  17. ↑ http://www.taraskuzio.net/Nation%20and%20State%20Building_files/national-rusyns.pdf
  18. ↑ Vyslockij, Dmytrij (1931). Карпаторусский букварь [Karpatorusskij bukvar'] (in Rusyn). Cleveland 
  19. ↑ Trochanovskij, Metodyj (1935). Буквар. Перша книжечка для народных школ. [Bukvar. Perša knyžečka dlja narodnŷch škol.] (in Rusyn). Lviv 
  20. ↑ Bogdan Horbal (2005). "The Rusyn Movement among the Galician Lemkos". In Custer, Richard D.. Rusyn-American Almanac of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society (Pittsburgh) (10th Anniversary 2004-2005). 
  21. ↑ "Rusnaci u svece". Rusmagazin2.brinkster.net. Retrieved 2012-08-07. 

Further reading

  • Zatkovich, Gregory. The Rusin Question in a Nutshell. OCLC 22065508. 
  • 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.
  • Aleksandr Dmitrievich Dulichenko. Jugoslavo-Ruthenica. Роботи з рускей филолоґиї. Нови Сад 1995.
  • Taras Kuzio, "The Rusyn question in Ukraine: sorting out fact from fiction", Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, XXXII (2005)
  • Elaine Rusinko, "Rusinski/Ruski pisni" selected by Nataliya Dudash; "Muza spid Karpat (Zbornik poezii Rusiniv na Sloven'sku)" assembled by Anna Plishkova. Books review. "The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 42, No. 2. (Summer, 1998), pp. 348-350. JSTOR archive
  • Плішкова, Анна [Anna Plishkova] (ed.): Муза спід Карпат (Зборник поезії Русинів на Словеньску). [Muza spid Karpat (Zbornik poezii Rusiniv na Sloven'sku)] Пряшів: Русиньска оброда, 1996. on-line
  • Геровский Г.Ю. Язык Подкарпатской Руси – Москва, 1995
  • Marta Harasowska. "Morphophonemic Variability, Productivity, and Change: The Case of Rusyn", Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11-015761-6.
    • Book review by Edward J. Vajda, Language, Vol. 76, No. 3. (Sep., 2000), pp. 728–729
  • I. I. Pop, Paul Robert Magocsi, Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture, University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8020-3566-3
  • Plišková, Anna: Rusínsky jazyk na Slovensku: náčrt vývoja a súčasné problémy. Prešov : Metodicko-pedagogické centrum, 2007, 116 s. Slovak Rusyn

External links

Rusyn edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rusyn test of Wiktionary at Wikimedia Incubator
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