Rusyn language

Rusyn
Rusyn
русиньскый язык; руски язик; <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">rusîn'skyj jazyk; ruski jazik
Ethnicity	Rusyns
Native speakers	623,500 (2000–2006)e18; Census population: 70,000. These are numbers from national official bureaus for statistics:; Slovakia – 33,482; Serbia – 15,626; Ukraine – 6,725; Poland – 10,000; Croatia – 2,337; Hungary – 1,113; Czech Republic – 777
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic East Slavic Rusyn; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic script (Rusyn alphabets); Latin script (Slovakia)
Recognised minority language in	Czech Republic Hungary Serbia; Slovakia Ukraine
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 бесїдаcode: rue is deprecated or русиньскый языкcode: rue is deprecated ) is an East Slavic language. It is spoken by the Rusyns of Central Europe. In English, it is also called Ruthene or Ruthenian. Some linguists treat it as a distinct language.^[12] Some Ukrainian scholars think it is a dialect of Ukrainian.^[13]

Rusyn is spoken in the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine, in northeastern Slovakia, in Vojvodina, in southeastern Poland, in Hungary and in northern Romania.

In Serbia, Rusyn is an official minority language.^[14] Since 1995, Rusyn has been an official minority language in Slovakia. In some Slovak municipalities, it is an official language.^[15]

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

Rusyn Language Media

An announcement at the Orthodox Church of St. Volodymyr in Lemko-Rusyn language and Polish in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
Lemko newspaper issued in Lviv, (no 209), from year 1938, with typical Rusyn language features: separation of reflexive pronoun (ся) and words лем, што, котры, уж.
Official usage of Pannonian Rusyn in Vojvodina, Serbia

References

↑ Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Population and Housing Census 2011: Table 11. Resident population by nationality – 2011, 2001, 1991Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
↑ Republic of Serbia, Republic Statistical Office. Final results of the census 2002 (24 December 2002). Retrieved 16 December 2010.
↑ State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. About number and composition population of UKRAINE by data All-Ukrainian population census 2001 data. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
↑ HomeCentral Statistical Office of Poland. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
↑ Republic of Croatia – Central Bureau of StatisticsCrostat. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
↑ 1.28 Population by mother tongue, nationality and sex, 1900–2001 (2001)Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
↑ Obyvatelstvo podle věku, mateřského jazyka a pohlaví. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
↑ Rusyn at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
↑ Implementation of the Charter in Hungary. Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority LanguagesPublic Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
↑ The Statue of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, SerbiaSkupstinavojvodine.gov.rs. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
↑ Law of Ukraine "On Principles of State Language Policy" (Current version — Revision from 1 February 2014). Document 5029-17, Article 7: Regional or minority languages Ukraine, Paragraph 2 (1 February 2014)Zakon2.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
↑ Bernard Comrie, "Slavic Languages," International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (1992, Oxford, Vol 3, pp. 452-456.
Ethnologue, 16th edition
↑ George Y. Shevelov, "Ukrainian," The Slavonic Languages (1993, Routledge, pp. 947-998.
↑ Statute of the Autonomous Province of VojvodinaSkupstinavojvodine.gov.rs. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
↑ Slovenskej Republiky, Národná Rada. Zákon 184/1999 Z. z. o používaní jazykov národnostných menšín (in Slovak) (1999)Zbierka zákonov. Retrieved 18 May 2010.

Other websites

This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Rusyn language edition.

Rusyn language at the World Academy of Rusyn Culture Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
Rusyn: A language of Ukraine. Ethnoloɠue: Languages of the World (2009)SIL International. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
Rusyn Greco Catholic Church in Novi Sad (Vojvodina-Serbia) Archived 2008-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
Rusyn-Ukrainian On-Line Dictionary Archived 2013-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Population and Housing Census 2011: Table 11. Resident population by nationality – 2011, 2001, 1991Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

[2] Republic of Serbia, Republic Statistical Office. Final results of the census 2002 (24 December 2002). Retrieved 16 December 2010.

[3] State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. About number and composition population of UKRAINE by data All-Ukrainian population census 2001 data. Retrieved 16 December 2010.

[4] HomeCentral Statistical Office of Poland. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

[5] Republic of Croatia – Central Bureau of StatisticsCrostat. Retrieved 5 September 2010.

[6] 1.28 Population by mother tongue, nationality and sex, 1900–2001 (2001)Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Retrieved 28 February 2012.

[7] Obyvatelstvo podle věku, mateřského jazyka a pohlaví. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

[8] Rusyn at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[9] Implementation of the Charter in Hungary. Database for the European Charter for Regional or Minority LanguagesPublic Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research. Retrieved 16 June 2014.

[10] The Statue of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, SerbiaSkupstinavojvodine.gov.rs. Retrieved 7 August 2012.

[11] Law of Ukraine "On Principles of State Language Policy" (Current version — Revision from 1 February 2014). Document 5029-17, Article 7: Regional or minority languages Ukraine, Paragraph 2 (1 February 2014)Zakon2.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 30 April 2014.

[12] Bernard Comrie, "Slavic Languages," International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (1992, Oxford, Vol 3, pp. 452-456.
Ethnologue, 16th edition

[13] George Y. Shevelov, "Ukrainian," The Slavonic Languages (1993, Routledge, pp. 947-998.

[14] Statute of the Autonomous Province of VojvodinaSkupstinavojvodine.gov.rs. Retrieved 7 August 2012.

[15] Slovenskej Republiky, Národná Rada. Zákon 184/1999 Z. z. o používaní jazykov národnostných menšín (in Slovak) (1999)Zbierka zákonov. Retrieved 18 May 2010.

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