In Fall 2005 I wrote a post about Rusyn, that little-known Slavonic language of the Carpathians. Oddly, that post brings more visitors to this weblog through Google searches than any other. It seems that there is more interest in Rusyn out there than one might expect. In addition to his Rusyn textbook from the 1970s, [...]
Curious about the minority Slavonic language spoken along the Carpathian mountains in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine I obtained a copy of Paul R. Magocsi’s Let’s Speak Rusyn (Prešov edition). How amusing what one can learn about the language just by considering its Rusyn title Бісідуйме по-руськы. For the verb ‘to speak’ Rusyn continues to [...]