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Rusyn (; ) is an East Slavic language (along with Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian to which it shares a common linguistic ancestry) that's spoken by the Rusyns. Opinions differ among linguists concerning whether Rusyn is a separate East Slavic language or a dialect of Ukrainian. The political implications of the dispute add to the controversy.
   Rusyn is spoken in the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine, in northeastern Slovakia, southeastern Poland (where it's often called łemkowski 'Lemko', from their characteristic word lem/лєм 'only'), and Hungary (where the people and language are called Ruten). The Pannonian Rusyn language in Serbia is sometimes considered part of the Rusyn language group, although some linguists consider that language to be West Slavic. In Ukraine, Rusyn is usually considered a dialect of Ukrainian, as it's very close to the Ukrainian Hutsul dialect, but some speakers sometimes prefer to consider themselves distinct from Ukrainians.
   Attempts to standardize the language suffer from its being divided among 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 mountainous part of Suceava County and Maramures County in Romania and the extreme southern parts of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine (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 of Ukraine. 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. It was formerly spoken on the northern side of the same mountains, in what is now southeastern Poland, prior to Operation Wisła, but is being revived.
Dolinian Rusyn or Subcarpathian Rusyn is spoken in the Transcarpathian Oblast of Ukraine.
Pryashiv Rusyn is the Rusyn spoken in the Prešov Region (in Rusyn: Pryashiv/Pryashuv) of Slovakia, as well as by some émigré communities, primarily in the United States of America.
Pannonian Rusyn is spoken in northwestern Serbia and eastern Croatia. Also called Bačka dialect, it's one of the official languages of the Serbian Autonomous Province of Vojvodina). Boiko, Hutsul and Dolinian are identified (and for the same speakers) as Ukrainian dialects and not Rusyn for several speakers that they're identified themselves Ukrainians.

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 [for example,1973]" had.

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	/g/
Д	д	ды	d	/d/
Е	е	e	e	/je/
Є	є	є	je	/je/
Ё	ё	ё	jo	/ʏ/	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/	not present in Pannonian Rusyn
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	/ts/
Ч	ч	чы	č	/ʧ/
Ш	ш	шы	š	/ʃ/
Щ	щ	щы	šč	/ʃʧ/
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

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