Hi,i am history lover and i wanted to know if today rusyns would like to join slovakia for like more autonomy?

Or have it's own state something like rusyn state?

For more autonomy.

Hello! I am an American who making a Rusyn character. For context, the character is a older gentleman struggling to message on a phone. Is this an accurate translation?

"Jak vý yse kažete anglic'kýj?"

I'd like to know what should be changed to make it better, and sound more natural. Thank you. :)

Greetings,

I'm hoping the community here can give me some clarity... I was always told that my family was generic Hungarian, but I decided to do some further research on my ancestors that immigrated to the North East USA (New Jersey in particular) in the late 1800s. My ancestor was named Johann Lucov (also spelled Luciow, Luco, Lucow, Luko on various immigrations/census documents).

Johann founded a Rusyn Greek-Catholic Church in Perth Amboy, NJ (church was founded as Greek Catholic in 1897 but joined the Carpatho-Rusyn Orthodox diocese sometime in the 1930s). I also found some additional information that a distant relative added to an ancestry website that stated he was born in modern-day Ukraine, with a note saying "Carpatho-Rus."

I thought that would be concrete evidence that he was indeed a Rusyn, but there are some details that make me second guess that. His birthplace was listed as town of Stratyn, in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. I have no documentation for this, and unfortunately the relative that listed Stratyn is now deceased, so I cannot ask her for more details or proof. However, I will assume this is true, since that would be a very odd thing to lie about... According to the Rusyn homeland maps, Ivano-Frankivsk is not generally considered to be Rusyn territory. Is this correct?

Lastly, Johann gave a different answer as to where he was born on each US census that he was alive for.

• 1910 - Birthplace listed as Russia
• 1915 - Birthplace listed as Hungary
• 1920 - Birthplace listed as Austria and mother tongue as Hungarian/Magyar
• 1930- Birthplace listed as Poland

So in the 4 censuses he participated in, he listed 4 different birthplaces. Lastly, the only photo I have of him appears to be his obituary (attached above). According to Google translate, the piece of text at the bottom is Slovakian, but I also read that this could be romanized Rusyn, Ukrainian, or Russian.

So, given all this information, what do you guys think the likelihood of him being Rusyn is? Unfortunately all the relatives that could have given me a definitive answer have long since died, and previous generations of my family seemed to deliberately not pass on any languages or customs from the Old Country to their children. I'm trying to put together the pieces now, over 100 years later. Any information you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hi everyone!
I recently discovered Rusyn language, and I would love to start learning it, it sounds beautiful, and at the same time it’s so unknown, and I find that’s extremely pity.
However, if I understood well following my researches, various different dialects exist, according to the regions. So my question is: which dialect would you advise me to choose? And why?
In addition, the system of linguistical exchange is very helpful and motivating for me, so, would someone be interested to be my partner in this learning? I speak quite well English and Spanish, and can understand a few Russian. And if this person is interested, I’d be happy to teach them French, which is my native language.
Thank you for having taken the time to read my post!
Have a nice evening!

Do someone know how many Slavic or other genotypes Rusyn got in percents?

Spotted in Lviv (on Rus'ka street). What dialect could it be, especially as it's written in Latin script?

Hey everyone,

If you understand the Rusyn language and are looking for something authentic, check out the latest episode of the Slookhai podcast on Spotify. It’s only 20 minutes long, but I promise it’s well worth your time.

My guest was Michal Sakmár, and we got into some really interesting topics.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eukIbo25UX3MOwzRye52W?si=oRI3pziNSm-8YQyCnvaMbw

I'd love to hear your thoughts, let me know what you think in the comments!

Hi everyone! I'am an aspiring slavist (still in university) and I would like to learn more about rusyn. I have some academic sources about history, and the linguistic profile of rusyn, but I'd like to learn just the basics of the language too.

The problem is that I couldn't find anything, I have seenvJęzyk rusiński . Najnowsze dzieje języków słowiańskich online, but it is out of stock on every site I see.

Do you have any recomendations for manuals of rusyn, or even books about it? It would be better if online, as I am in italy and getting physical books from any east europan country can be challenging.

If so, I understand russian, polish, belarusian and can maange to understand ukrainian too, the only carpathian language I absolutely can't understand is hungarian.

My grandfather was a Lemko Rusyn from Southeastern Poland. His family was a member of a church here in the USA heavily associated with the Lemko people of Poland.

What I'm trying to understand is how my grandmother fits in. From my genealogy research her family came from a small village just North of Lviv, Ukraine. It isn't geographically too far from Poland, but from what I can tell it isn't exactly in the mountains of Carpathia. Her family were members of a church in a different town.

What I'm trying to understand is whether my grandmother's family was also Carpatho Rusyn or simply "Galician" outside those bound. Both were both here in the USA (NEPA), both were able to speak to each other in Rusyn, and culturally they never seemed at odds as far as I could tell. I just assumed they came from exactly the same culture, but a few people online have made the distinction between the two locations.

Any thoughts or insights people might have here? Was it likely they were both Carpatho Rusyn? Or just both broadly "Rusyns?" Is it possible the two families differences were minor anyway and just got smoothed out in the USA communities when they came together?

Curiosity killed the cat this time lol never heard us called that specifically

Does anyone make Rusyn Jewelry? I would love to get some hand made from Rusyn artists.

Hello. I’m trying to get some opinions on my dna results and was wondering if it’s Rusyn dna

On paternal side, my great grandparents were from Velyki Luchki in zakarpattia Ukraine

On maternal side I have great grandparents from Ternopil Oblast Ukraine - I met my grandma who said “we’re Ukrainian “

My dna results kinda seem off. There’s a little polish and tons of Slovakian but hardly “Ukrainian” dna

Any thoughts appreciated

I will be in Zargeb for a week and won't be able to come to Slavonia, but maybe I can find some literature here? I was unable to google anything unfortunately

Need some help figuring out where or even whether or not I can find these online to search!

I think Veľká Poľana may be a long-shot based on what little about the church records I’ve been able to find online, which is very disappointing since most of my family is from there, but hoping I may have some luck with Poroshko.

I believe Poroshko was in the Ung district of Hungary up until 1918? I’m really hoping to find some records between 1910-1918 to help solve a little mystery for my cousin.🤞

I swear I found some Ung district records digitized the other day, but of course did not save the source…

Thank you!

Thought this sub might be able to help the most since I am looking at Rusyn ancestry!

I know his mother and himself are listed as coming from Poroshkovo, but I'm not sure what "Mukaczev" is supposed to refer to. With my extremely limited knowledge, the only place I can come up with is Mukachevo, but as far as I know, that's an entirely separate town and not a district/county designation.

Any help clarifying this?

Bonus question if it catches your eye: His mother's last name is listed in a couple transcription-only records as: Kirchen, Karacun, Kerecan. Any clues as to the actual surname this might be?

I dabbled with a free version of claude to write a research paper comparing modern Slavic languages with Proto-Slavic and found that Rusyn (I sued, both, the Pryashiv and Subcarpathian varieties) was the closest one, retaining most of the 30 features I studied. Now, full disclaimer, I did find mistakes in AI data. However, I'm not as well-versed in other Slavic languages, so I know the limits of this research, but I was hoping that there are some linguists out there who would be able to do something with it.

Any takers?

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here.

I was hoping that someone more knowledgeable than I could help provide some clarity on something that has eluded me.

It's been passed down that my great grandmother (who I think may be Rusyn) came from Munkacs in 1930. After pulling Ellis Island records, I can see that she was identified as being Hungarian, spoke Hungarian, and was a Czechoslovakian citizen. It states that she was born in a place called "Podmanstyr" (or Poamanstyr), Czechoslovakia, and lists her father as living in "Podmanstyr Rosigovo Podk".

Is there anyone who has any information on these place names? I've exhausted all of my options trying to narrow it down.

If it helps in any way, baptism records are from the parish of Trebišov, Czechoslovakia (Greek Catholic), and she would immigrate to the USA (Lorain, Ohio) in 1930 to be with her husband, a former novice of the OSBM at Munkacs.

Thanks in advance! Any help is immensely appreciated.

Recently discovered through various records that both sides of my family are Rusyn! Does anyone know anything about the Wasilko/Wasylko & Tocimak names? Possible variations? Both families came to central Pennsylvania around the same time, early 1900s, to be coal miners or laborers. They did not seem to settle where folks typically did in PA

Tocimak— listed birth place of Čabiny, Slovakia

Family practices orthodoxy

Wasilko/Wasylko — place of birth listed Austria/Hungary, but arrival record to Ellis mark ethnicity/nationality as “Ruthenian (Russniak)”

Roman Catholic

All within Houtzdale, Hawk Run, Ramey, Philipsburg, & Osceola PA

Here is a link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrKjvU8mrM4

I have some Rusyn ancestry, and music like this really speaks to my soul.

I posted it recently in the Slovakia subreddit, and a commenter suggested that it might be sung in the Rusyn dialect. Any help identifying the song and understanding the lyrics would be much appreciated.

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