Ruthenian (Rusyn/Русин)
Ruthenian is an eastern Slavonic language with about 55,000
speakers in Slovakia, 21,000 in the former Yugoslavia, an estimated
30,000 in Poland and perhaps as many as 700,000 in the Transcarpathia
region of Ukraine. It has two distinctive dialects: Carpatho-Rusyn,
which is spoken in Ukraine and is closely related to
Ukrainian and Russian,
and Panonian-Rusyn, which is spoken in Slovakia, Hungary and the
Serbian province of Vojvodina and is more closely related to
western Slavonic languages, particularly Slovak,
with some influence from Hungarian.
There are also speakers of Ruthenian in the USA and Canada.
Ruthenian alphabet
Sample text
Тож
Шануйме
Рідне Слово
Од Велика Аж
До Мала
Вшытко Інше
Зме Стратили
Лем Бесіда
Нам Остала
Sample text
Respect your native language
From the oldest to the youngest
While we’ve lost everything
Only our language has remained
Links
Information about the Rusyn language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyn_language
The Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base – information about culture, language, etc.
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/
Carpatho-Rusyn Society
http://www.carpathorusynsociety.org
World Academy of Rusyn Culture
http://www.rusyn.org
Ruthenian Internet Radio
http://www.rusyn-radio.dns2go.com
Free Cyrillic fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrS.html
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
http://free.type.org.ua/en/